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Visiting Researchers Presentations

Introduction:

 

 

09h30: Walker Mary, Monash University, Dr, Research Fellow – Philosophy

  • Ethics of artificial organs, advanced prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces

 

09h50: Temple-Smith Meredith, University of Melbourne – Professor – Medicine

  • Sexual Health for Australians: Actions, Omissions and Achievements

 

10h10: Schickl Hannah, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg – Research Assistant, PhD Student – Philosophy

  • On the moral consideration of human embryos in vitro with the example of stem cell research and preimplantation genetic diagnosis

 

10h30: Pillinger Mara, George Washington University, PhD Candidate (ABD) – Political science

  • To R&D or Not to R&D: Partnership Priorities for Neglected and Pandemic Disease Control

 

10h50 – 11h05: coffee break

 

11h05: Riso Brigida, CIES-IUL/ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, M.Sc/PhD Student – Sociology

  • Stor(y)ing health: an ethnography through Portuguese biobanks and health contexts

 

11h25: Paul Diane b, UMass Boston, Professor Emerita – Political science

  • The Quest for Objectivity in Prenatal Genetic Care: Contested Perspectives

 

11h45: Lavidor Michal, Bar Ilan University, Professor, Psychology

  • Neuroethical issues in cognitive enhancement

 

12h05: Creary Melissa, University of Michigan, Assistant Professor, Science and technology studies

  • The Cultural Malleability of Biology: Constructions of Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil

 

12h30 – 13h30 – Buffet lunch served by the Foundation in the Brocher Centre

 

13h30: Ibrahim Baher, University of Glasgow, PhD History Candidate – History of Medicine

  • Uprooting, nostalgia, trauma and confinement: A history of refugee mental health concepts, treatments and practices from the 1940s-1980s

 

13h50: Chiapperino Luca, Université de Lausanne; Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques;  

           Institut des sciences sociales, Chercheur FNS Senior – Science and technology studies

  • Inheritance. The moral economies of reproduction in the biosocial age

 

14h10 : end of the presentations

 

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