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News, blogs, jobs, press articles, reports and think pieces from around the field of medical ethics, bioethics and law. This page is a mixture of news from the IME and others that we are aware of. You can filter all news by category, year and/or month in order to find exactly what you are looking for. Please contact us to get your news, blog, jobs, press articles, reports and think pieces featured here.
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New Book – The Ethical Clinician: Practical Lessons from the Bedside and Courtroom
by Daniel Sokol
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New Medical Humanities Podcast
Title: What’s the point? Medicine needs the Humanities
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Online Seminar Recording – Professor Nancy Jecker
Access the virtual seminar with Professor Nancy S. Jecker, Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine, held on 19 March 2026 below.
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Lewis Headley 2026 Audio Recording
This is an audio recording of the 2026 Lewis Headley Lecture which took place on Friday 6th February 2026 at City St George's Law School, London.
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ONLINE SEMINAR – An ‘assisted death’ by any other name would smell as sweet? – RECORDING
This is a recording of the online seminar that took place on 30th April 2025 featuring Prof David A Jones
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Ethics Round Up- Year 2024
As the field of medical ethics continues to evolve, 2024 has brought a host of groundbreaking developments and newsworthy moments that merit attention. From legislative shifts to advancements in medical technology, these key highlights have sparked debate and shaped the ethical landscape of healthcare in the UK and beyond. Here are the top five medical ethics events and developments of the year:
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ONLINE SEMINAR – A fair exchange: why living kidney donors in England should be financially compensated – RECORDING
This is a recording of the online seminar that took place on 24th April 2024 featuring Bonnie Venter and Daniel Rodger
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ONLINE SEMINAR – A global profession needs a global ethos – The World Medical Association’s Revised International Code of Medical Ethics provides one – RECORDING
This is a recording of the online seminar that took place on 21st March 2024 featuring Raanan Gillon, Urban Wiesing and Ramin W Parsa-Parsi.
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2024 LEWIS HEADLEY LECTURE – Clinical Ethics and the Law, Tor Butler-Cole – RECORDING
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VIRTUAL SEMINAR – Different emergency departments, different triage systems: when is it an ethical problem that two patients with the same condition are triaged with different criteria? And should the public know about it? – RECORDING
This is a recording of the online seminar that took place on 18th October 2023 featuring Silvia Camporesi & Davide Battisti
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Do international medical volunteers create more harm than good in “developing countries”?
Georgina Adams, Cardiff University, received a bursary for her 2023 elective in Kenya. You can read a report of her project below.
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An insight into new mental health infrastructure in Tanzania and its effects on patient autonomy
Jessica Morgan, University of Oxford, received a bursary for her 2023 elective in Tanzania. You can read her report of her project below.
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