Launch seminar presentations

The following presentations were given by members of the Working Party at the launch seminar for the report Human bodies: dondation for medicine and research on 11 October 2011.

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Introduction and overview of the report

Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern

Chair of the Working Party on Human bodies: donation for medicine and research and Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Presentation slides (PDF 172KB)

Parallel session 1: Donation for medical treatment

Mr Keith Rigg

Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Presentation slides (PDF 50KB)

Dr Tim Lewens 

Reader in Philosophy of the Sciences, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

Presentation slides (PDF 61KB)

Parallel session 2: Donation for research

Professor Chris Womack 

Principal Clinical Histopathologist, AstraZeneca, and Honorary Professor in the School of Cancer and Enabling Sciences, University of Manchester

Presentation slides (PDF 157KB)

Professor David Price

Professor of Medical Law, De Montfort University

Presentation slides (67KB)