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Launch of consultation on biofuels

22 December 2009

Professor Joyce Tait introduces the key issues raised by new approaches to biofuels.

Dementia: ethical issues

1 October 2009

Professor Tony Hope, chair of the Working Party on Dementia, Council member Dr Rhona Knight, and Hugh Whittall, Director of the Council, discuss some of the Council's key recommendations on ethical issues raised by dementia care.

Public lecture 2009

29 April 2009

"New genetic recipes: are we cooking up trouble with synthetic biology?"
By Dr Thomas H. Murray
President and CEO, Hastings Center

Part 1 (clip takes 10-15 seconds to load)

Follow these links to watch the rest of the lecture:

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Medical profiling and online medicine: The ethics of 'personalised' health care in a consumer age

20 April 2009

Hugh Whittall, Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and Christopher Hood, Professor of Government at the University of Oxford, discuss the key ethical issues of commerical DNA profiling, body imaging and online health care at a media briefing held on 20 April 2009. (Clip takes 10-15 seconds to load).

Last Updated Tue, 22 December 2009