Prof John Wyatt from UCL will discuss the ethical issues around the start and end of life resulting from recent advances in medical science.
How should healthcare professionals and society at large respond to today’s ethical challenges and opportunities? What difference does a Christian viewpoint make?
John Wyatt is Emeritus Professor of Ethics and Perinatology at University College London. He has a clinical background in the mechanisms, consequences and prevention of brain injury in critically ill newborn infants. His work is now concentrated on ethical issues raised by advances in reproductive and medical technology at the beginning of life. He is also concerned with research ethics.
His seminal book ‘Matters of Life and Death: Human Dilemmas in the Light of the Christian Faith’ is published by IVP. See http://www.ivpbooks.com/9781844743674
Admission to the talk is free. Afterwards there will be time for questions and discussion. Books will be on sale at discount prices before and after the talk.
This event is jointly organised by the Christian Medical Fellowship and the Central South branch of Christians in Science.
The lecture will take place in Lecture Theatre A, Building 46 (Physics A) at 7.30pm on Thursday 15 November.
For further information contact Rob Heather.
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Or visit the CIS Central South website at http://www.cis.org.uk/groups/central-south/ and click on the links to information about this lecture or to listen to recordings of previous events.