Professor Jackie Leach Scully, Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor
Online lecture (in-person attendance is restricted to members of the University of Bristol)
Please reserve your place at this lecture
In this public lecture, Professor Leach Scully will present some key ideas from her forthcoming monograph, Incorporated: Ethics and Experience in Transplantation (OUP), which draws upon her own experience as a recipient of a donated liver to offer a fresh examination of the ethical landscape of organ donation and recipientship in the UK. Her account centres a patient experience in a way that challenges many dominant assumptions regarding organ donation. There will be short responses to the lecture from: Professor Havi Carel (Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol), Dr Barny Hole (Bristol Medical School), and Dr Bonnie Venter (Law School, University of Bristol).
Professor Leach Scully is an internationally recognised bioethicist specialising in disability and feminist bioethics. She is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Disability Innovation Institute, a cross-Faculty research centre, at the University of New South Wales. She is also the former Executive Director of Newcastle University’s Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS). Jackie is visiting the University of Bristol as a Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor.
The lecture is co-hosted by the Centre for Health Law and Society, and the Centre for Ethics and Medicine. Drinks and nibbles will be offered after the lecture for in person attendees.
Professor Sally Sheldon: sally.sheldon@bristol.ac.uk
