Transcript Regulating UK Bioethics

Regulating UK Bioethics
Jonathan Montgomery
20 July 2012
Shaping tomorrow’s thinking
History
• Health Professionalism
– BMA, Royal Colleges
– Kennedy challenge in Reith Lectures
• Bureaucratic bioethics
– Warnock – HFEA
– Nuffield Council on Bioethics
– Human Genetics Commission
• Post-bureaucratic bioethics
– The bonfire of the Quangos
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Issues?
• Explanations offered
– Cost
– Legitimacy
• Evidence, rigour & politics
– Presumed consent or ‘opt-out’ to organ
donation in England & Wales
– ‘Condemnation’ - a retreat from evidencebased decision-making?
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Phoenix
possibilities
• Personalisation
– Bioethics as a private matter
• Privatisation
– Demos, Pratchett & Assisted Dying
– Big Society?
• Democratisation
– Parliamentary committee
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Creating the
future
• Emerging Science and Bioethics
Advisory Committee (ESBAC)
• NCoB
– Rigour
– Stakeholders
– Public debate
• Faith Communities…
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