This week I said goodbye to colleagues at University College Cork. Interviews with those expert in ageing and ethics were fruitful and our conference organisation is well in hand for September 2018. Thanks to the efforts of Dr Joan McCarthy and her colleagues careful thought is being given to the conference programme and social arrangements […]
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Public Engagement in Debates about Ethical Issues How important is it that members of the public understand and contribute to debates about ethical issues that impact on our local and global communities? If you were a member of a national bioethics body, a politician or a policy-maker, charged with ‘public engagement’, how would you go about […]
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If you want to get to know a country, talk with a local taxi driver. In this first blog of 2018, I want to tell about Barry, the taxi driver who took me from Heuston station to the American Embassy in Dublin. But first something about the city I find myself in for this phase […]
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I arrived at the Hastings Center in Garrison, New York State, with one set of questions. And left with another. This week I’ve also come across an interesting new idea in the context of bioethics: ‘binocularity’. More on this later. The Hastings Center This world-renowned bioethics center was founded in 1969 by Daniel Callahan and Willard […]
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As I entered Healy Hall, which houses the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE), I overheard a campus tour guide declaring: ‘At Georgetown we pride ourselves on our religious diversity.’ Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit higher learning institute in the United States (see https://www.georgetown.edu/about/key-facts). Georgetown is close to many other unmissable Washington attractions such as […]
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‘Do you want to know if it’s loaded?’ asked octogenarian, Mr S, when he noticed I’d caught sight of the handgun and holster slung over my chair… My penultimate day in Alabama was spent with a home care team who delivered services to elders in a rural community. Before team members had breakfast together, they held […]
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