October 10, 2011

human bodies: donation for medicine and research

Speakers:
Prof Dame Marilyn Strathern, Chair, Report Working Party
Mr Keith Rigg, Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals
Prof Bobbie Farsides, Professor of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Mr Hugh Whittall, Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics

This briefing, run in collaboration with the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, launched their new report Human bodies: donation for medicine and research. The report considered how far we should go in trying to encourage people to donate their bodily material.