Biomedical Ethics and Law
The Biomedical Ethics and Law Programme supports research in any
area of the ethics and law of health care, broadly conceived.
The Programme is designed to bring together ethical and legal
theorists, empirically orientated researchers, educators and other
professionals, both within the University of Hull and from
elsewhere. As such, the research activities undertaken are
genuinely inter-disciplinary. Ongoing activities are shaped
by the research interests of members, which currently include,
inter alia, mental capacity and mental health law and
ethics and phenomenology and embodiment in health care.
Members of the Programme also work within the Centre for Experts
and Institutions and the Centre for Research into Embodied
Subjectivity. The Biomedical Ethics and Law Programme
organises a seminar series which takes place over a semester each
academic year.
Programme Director: Dr
Phil Bielby LLB (Hull) PCHE (Sheffield) PhD
(Sheffield)
Biomedical ethics and law research associates
Gianluca Andresani is Lecturer in the Business
School. His research interests are in the areas of ethics and
public policy, ethics and public service, professional ethics (in
particular medical, legal and academic professions), organisational
and political ethics.
Phil Bielby is a Lecturer in the Law School. Phil
is the author of Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical
Research (Springer, 2008) and a number of articles on
bioethics and medical law. His interests surround
ethico-legal issues in mental capacity and mental health concerning
consent to treatment and research.
Rob
Clucas is Lecturer in Law at the University of Hull.
His research interests have included jurisprudence and children. He
has published articles on jurisprudence; medical ethics,
particularly conjoined twins; human rights, and children's rights
and welfare.
Raphael Cohen-Almagor is Professor of
Politics at the Department of Politics and International
Studies. Amongst his research interests figure medical
ethics, media ethics, and multiculturalism.
Stella Gonzalez-Arnal is a Lecturer in the
Department of Philosophy at the University of Hull. She is working
on ethical issues in genetics.
Mark Gretton is a Lecturer in nursing at the
University of Hull. He is working towards his PhD on the ethical
issues of resuscitation.
Annabel Howe is a PhD student based in the Law
School. Annabel is interested in the role of contemporaneous
wishes expressed by persons in the mid to late stages of dementia,
within the interpretation of advance directives. Her thesis
draws attention to how the lived experience of dementia and illness
changes how such individuals value their existence.
Kathleen Lennon is Professor of
Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of
Hull. She has research interests in the body and identity, with a
particular focus on the gendered body and issues of
transsexuality.
James Mullen is a solicitor and currently
undertaking a part-time PhD research in the Law School. His
research interests are in the areas of compulsory hospitalisation
and treatment of vulnerable adults, withholding consent and proxy
decision making.
Martin Parry is a solicitor and Emeritus Reader in Law
at the Law School. His research specialism is the law relating to
child protection, on which he writes as joint author of the
'Children' volume of Butterworths Family Law Service. He
is also a senior associate manager with the Humber
NHS Foundation Trust.
Diane Pitt is an Honorary Research
Associate in Philosophy, who works primarily within the developing
area of applied phenomenology, with a special interest in
phenomenology and medicine. Her research explores the
phenomenology of illness, and connected to this is a
phenomenological investigation of medical diagnostics.
Liz Smith is a Lecturer in Nursing at the
University of Hull. She is working towards her PhD on the ethics of
neonatal decision making.
Suzanne Uniacke is a Reader in Applied Ethics
in the Philosophy Department. She works on issues of rights and
obligations, and issues of life and death in medico-legal
contexts.
Tony
Ward is a Reader in the Law School. His research
interests include the law and ethics of expert evidence and the
history of psychiatry in relation to law.
Demian Whiting is Senior Lecturer in Medical
Ethics and Professionalism at the University of Hull. His research
interests include medical ethics and professionalism (including,
the regulation of attitudes, apologies and conscientious objections
in medical practice), philosophy of mind (in particular, theories
of emotion), and philosophy of health (including, theories of
health, disorder, and decisional capacity).
Research Seminars
The IAE invites papers from high profile academics in applied
ethics whose work links with the interests of people at Hull. A
biomedical ethics and law seminar programme is organised each
year. Previous seminars, Current
seminars
See also News and
Current
Events
PhD Research
There are currently two Research
Associates who are undertaking PhD research in the field of
Biomedical Ethics and Law. Further details of their work can
be found on Biomedical Ethics and Law
PhD Research.
Conferences and Workshops
See Presentations and conference
participation
Together with local ethics committees the IAE co-organised a one
day workshop on withdrawing treatment to very ill infants. This was
held on 22 April 2005.
The IAE organised a workshop on Antisocial Personality Disorder and
Responsibility: Scientific and Ethical Issues, held in
York on 26 June 2006. Funding was provided by the Wellcome
Trust.
IAE supported research
Click here for a list of biomedical ethics and law research that
the IAE has supported. Research
Externally funded research
Click here for a list of externally funded research in
biomedical ethics and law. External funding
Publications
See general list of IAE publications.