"Health Law and Bioethics in an Aging Society"

"Health Law and Bioethics in an Aging Society"

4th International Seminar in Health Law and Bioethics
Sponsored by
"Health Law and Bioethics in an Aging
Society"
University of Reading, UK
25th of July 2013
Participants:
PROGRAM
9h00
Welcome
12h30
Lunch
Christopher Newdick, Paula Lobato de Faria and
Wendy K. Mariner
13h30
Living Longer: Health and gender in later life
Ana Alexandre Fernandes
Presentations
Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas,
Moderator
Luís Baptista
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, CESNOVA, Portugal
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, CESNOVA,
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
9h15
Life, Liberty, and the Futile Pursuit of Physician
Assisted Suicide in the US
George J. Annas
Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights,
Boston University School of Public Health / Global
Lawyers and Physicians, USA
10h00
Elderly healthcare in the face of budget constraints
Ricardo Perlingeiro
Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Federal Fluminense,
Brazil
10h45
Coffee Break
11h00
14h15
Science and (im)mortality - regulation of meaningful
efforts to prolong or shorten life
João V. Cordeiro
Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, CESNOVA,
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
15h00
Coffee Break
15h30
Violence against the elderly and the law
Paula Lobato de Faria
Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, CESNOVA,
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
16h15
Conflicting roles for insurance in disease prevention and
cost control
Wendy K. Mariner
Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights,
Private rights, public interests and "lifestyle" diseases - reevaluating autonomy and public health ethics
Christopher Newdick
Boston University School of Public Health, USA
School of Law, University of Reading, UK
Concluding remarks
Christopher Newdick, Paula Lobato de Faria and
Wendy Mariner
11h45
17h00-17h15
Netherlands "euthanasia" legal norms
Andre den Exter
Erasmus University, The Netherlands
University of Antwerp, Belgium
19.30h
Group dinner
Venue and contacts
University of Reading – School of Law
http://www.reading.ac.uk/law/
Maps and directions
http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/find/about-findindex.aspx
Campus map
http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/UoR-and-town-map-2012-COLOUR.pdf
Contacts
[email protected] (Portugal)
[email protected] (UK)
[email protected] (USA)