Forgot password?

The Fondation Brocher is an essential player in this vital thinking process: one which will help make us aware of the real challenges in using our resources for maximum impact on the health of the people of the world.

 

 

Professor Daniel Wikler, Harvard University

Donations

The Brocher Foundation is a Swiss non-profit private foundation  recognized of public interest. Your donations are tax deductible according to the regulations in force.

Back


March 7, 2019

Visiting Researchers Presentations

Subscribe to the event

Organizers:

 

 

09h30: Walker Mary, Monash University, Dr, Research Fellow - Philosophy

  • Ethics of artificial organs, advanced prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces

 

09h50: Temple-Smith Meredith, University of Melbourne - Professor - Medicine

  • Sexual Health for Australians: Actions, Omissions and Achievements

 

10h10: Schickl Hannah, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg - Research Assistant, PhD Student - Philosophy

  • On the moral consideration of human embryos in vitro with the example of stem cell research and preimplantation genetic diagnosis

 

10h30: Pillinger Mara, George Washington University, PhD Candidate (ABD) - Political science

  • To R&D or Not to R&D: Partnership Priorities for Neglected and Pandemic Disease Control

 

10h50 - 11h05: coffee break

 

11h05: Riso Brigida, CIES-IUL/ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, M.Sc/PhD Student - Sociology

  • Stor(y)ing health: an ethnography through Portuguese biobanks and health contexts

 

11h25: Paul Diane b, UMass Boston, Professor Emerita - Political science

  • The Quest for Objectivity in Prenatal Genetic Care: Contested Perspectives

 

11h45: Lavidor Michal, Bar Ilan University, Professor, Psychology

  • Neuroethical issues in cognitive enhancement

 

12h05: Creary Melissa, University of Michigan, Assistant Professor, Science and technology studies

  • The Cultural Malleability of Biology: Constructions of Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil

 

12h30 - 13h30 - Buffet lunch served by the Foundation in the Brocher Centre

 

13h30: Ibrahim Baher, University of Glasgow, PhD History Candidate - History of Medicine

  • Uprooting, nostalgia, trauma and confinement: A history of refugee mental health concepts, treatments and practices from the 1940s-1980s

 

13h50: Chiapperino Luca, Université de Lausanne; Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques;  

           Institut des sciences sociales, Chercheur FNS Senior - Science and technology studies

  • Inheritance. The moral economies of reproduction in the biosocial age




 

14h10 : end of the presentations

 

Subscribe to the event

Close

Subscribe to the event


2019-03-07 - 2019-03-07

Visiting Researchers Presentations


Registration fee: Free

Registration



* Mandatory fields
Submit subscription