Medical Law and Ethics Discussion Group, Oxford

Thank you to Professor Emma Hitchings for a fantastic final presentation of our term card on the division of money and property on divorce. Such an insightful end to myself and Anjali's tenure as Convenors!

Call for Papers: Medical humanities in the 21st Century @UEAhealthmedhum @NCLmedhums @MedHumUniVie @MLE_DG @FamMedLawOxford @DurhamImh @Med_Humanities @HealthHumsNorth @NNMHRmed @EdHealthMedHums

Our final talk of the Term Card 2024 will be this Friday, Professor @EmmaHitchings6 will be discussing her latest project 'Fair Shares', on the division of money and property upon divorce Sign up closes Thursday midday: forms.office.com/e/kEsNQFxWEw

Thank you to @CounselTweets for an insightful talk on prisoners' choice to VSED.

Thank you to Dr Tristan Cummings for a marvellous talk on children's right to religion and how this intersects with the concept of play. Those who signed up to the talk will have access to his slides soon.

Reminder of our excellent upcoming talk on Friday: Ian Brownhill, 'Protester or patient: Can the law determine in food refusal cases?' @CounselTweets Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/kEsNQFxWEw

Event tomorrow: Dr Tristan Cummings, 'Playing with gods? The importance of play for understanding the child’s right to religion' - 11.30-1, Law Fac, Seminar D In-person attendance is strongly encouraged, but if you need an online link please email frances.hand@law.ox.ac.uk

This week, Convenor @FrancesHand_ organised an international conference on Obstetric Violence, alongside current and returning Faculty members, as well as current research students and soon-to-be Doctorate holders! Congratulations to everyone who made this event such a success!

You are invited to enter the Marcus Pembrey BioNews Writing Prize Full details of how to enter, the competition rules, tips for writing and the judging process can all be found on our website: progress.org.uk/bionews-writin… Closing date is 30 June 2024. Good luck from the team at PET

@TheSmallPlaces forms.office.com/e/kEsNQFxWEw

@MLE_DG Ooh - intrigued! Is there a public version of this?

Thank you so much to the wonderful Victoria Butler-Cole KC for her presentation on 'Charlie Gard and Beyond' on Friday 10th May. This was a brilliant insight into how the current legal framework for children's medical cases is perhaps in need of radical change.

@TheSmallPlaces Sadly not, we run a 'you had to be there' policy!! But please do sign up to the next one!

Our Trinity Term Card is out!!! Registration is mandatory and can be done via this link: forms.office.com/e/kEsNQFxWEw

The @AABHL's Empirical Bioethics Stream is under new management! Myself, @Supriya_S5, @hbowmansmart, @yvessj_aquino and @nwroxburgh. We're kicking off a new program of online and in-person events with a 'critical dialogue' probing key questions. Register: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Very excited to join my PhD Sisters: @evmabre and @ge_speechly in a collaborative panel at our upcoming Conference. We will be discussing consent principles across three very different jurisdictional contexts: Germany, South Africa and the UK.

If anyone was having difficulties accessing the sign up form, this should now have been resolved so please try again!

Beyond excited to announce the upcoming conference "Tackling #ObstetricViolence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" on 📅20 May, 9-5pm, at @ExeterCollegeOx Cohen Quad with a STELLAR line-up of speakers!💫 Register to join us in person or online: forms.office.com/e/esm5mKehjv

Thank you to Professor Richard Smith and Miss Isabel Quiroga for their fantastic presentation today on Fertility Preservation and Restoration: Founding the first successful womb transplant programme in the UK. Truly science fiction in action!

Sign-ups close tomorrow (Thursday 29th February) at midday! Miss Isabel Quiroga and Professor Richard Smith, 'Founding the first successful womb transplant programme in the UK: Fertility Preservation and Restoration' Sign up can be completed here: forms.office.com/e/Urqnixhk63