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Conference on 'Ethics and Rights in Health and Social Care Health'

Conference on 'Ethics and Rights in Health and Social Care Health'

  • Date14 June 2024

The Health and Social Care research cluster comprises researchers from law, social work, criminology, sociology, forensic psychology, health studies and psychology. The conference, held on 12 June, saw speakers address a broad range of topics in considering the role and impact of ethics and rights in health and social care from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

The ‘Ethics and Rights in Health and Social Care’ conference, hosted by the Department of Law and Criminology’s Health and Social Care research cluster, took place on 12 June in Senate House, University of London.  Organised and run by cluster leads Dr Jane Marriott and Karl Mason, the conference brought together speakers from a range of disciplines and included presentations on completed studies, work in progress and emerging ideas.  The conference was delighted to welcome the Department of Law and Criminology’s Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Jon Gabe, as its keynote speaker.

  • Emeritus Professor Jon Gabe ‘The Pharmaceuticalisation of Society’
  • Dr Jane Marriott ‘Big Pharma, Lethal Injection and Devolving Standards of Decency’
  • Professor Frank Keating ‘Achieving Epistemic Justice in Mental Health Services through Anti-Racist Research’
  • Karl Mason ‘”Mind the Gap”: Reflections on Ethics and Liminality in Homelessness Research’
  • Dr Yvonne Jacobs ‘Changes to the Law on Assisted Dying in England and Wales: Would We Be Able to Protect the Vulnerable?’
  • Dr Natalie Pitimson ‘Can’t Afford to Die: Funeral Poverty, Stigma and Economic Obligation’
  • Dr Niina Manninen, Dr Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, Dr Preety Mahato and Felicia Boma Lazaridou ‘Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Maternal Care: Exploring Contributing Factors in Finland, Spain, UK and Germany – Preliminary Results of a Scoping Review’

Dr Stefan Brown ‘Moving towards a Model of Social Work Decision Making in Mental Capacity Work’

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