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Interdisciplinary research centre based at Edinburgh Law School focused on ethics and law at the interface between health, medicine and the life sciences.
University of Edinburgh
Joined August 2012
The Mason Institute Student Essay Competition 2025 is now open!. Winners will receive a cash prize of £200. Submission deadline: 30 June 2025. See the link below for eligibility details:.
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Join us for a public lecture and Q&A presented by Dr Josephine Greenbrook that explores physicians' lived experiences of law in encounters with undocumented migration. All are welcome!. Tue 13 May 2025 | 11:00am - 12:15pm . Details and registration:.
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Join us on Monday 12 May from 16:00 - 17:30 in person or online for the joint Mason Institute and Empirical Legal Research Network talk presented by MI Deputy Director, Dr Josephine T.V. Greenbrook. Details and registration:.
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New Student Blog Published - 'Silenced by the Lockdown: A Critique of the British Government's Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) During the COVID-19 Pandemic'. You can read the new student blog post on the Mason Institute Blog here:.
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New Student Blog Published - 'Ectogenesis: Equality or Captivity for Women?'. The MI Student Blog Series publishes the excellent work undertaken by Edinburgh postgraduate students on the LLM in Medical Law and Ethics. Read the blog post here:.
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Join us at the Edinburgh Science Festival on Wed 9 April 2025 at 6pm for the panel discussion, 'Alzheimer's: To Test or Not to Test' which will consider the questions and dilemmas regarding early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Details & registration:
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Registration is now open to attend the MI webinar scheduled for Tues, 18 March 2025 from 13:00 - 14:00 (GMT). 'The Law on Consent and Reasonable Treatment Options: Examining McCulloch and Montgomery' presented by Darren Deery, partner at Drummond Miller.
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Join us on Monday, 3 March from 10:30am - 4:30pm for the GenEthics Forum 2025 meeting. Tickets: £30 .Registration: .These meetings provide opportunities for discussion of ethical issues encountered by professionals working in clinical genetics.
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Registration is now open to attend the Mason Institute webinar 'Ethics and Priority Setting for Health Research' presented by Joseph Millum (St Andrews University). Tues 25 Feb 2025 | 13:00 - 14:00 | online via Zoom . Register below. All welcome!.
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Registration is now open to attend the MI webinar, 'Global South Healthcare Professional Shortages: A Structural Injustice' presented by Rebecca Richards, PhD candidate at Edinburgh Law School. Tues, 11 February 2025 | 13:00 - 14:00 (GMT).Register here:
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Join us on Tues, 4 Feb 2025 from 13:00 - 14:00 online via Zoom for a Mason Institute Webinar presented by Mehrunisha Suleman titled 'Should Medicine Be Colour Blind?' .Details and registration available here: All are welcome!
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Webinar Recording Now Available - 'Population Health and the Law: Alcohol Minimum Pricing in Scotland and Wales' presented by Simon Jones (Cardiff University). You can watch the presentation on the MI media channel:
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**Book Publication** . Scottish Medical Law Essentials (2nd Edition) by Dr Murray Earle, Edinburgh Law School. An indispensable guide to Medical Law in Scotland, fully updated with the latest statutes and case law. Available here:
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Webinar recording available - A Staged Analysis of Informed Consent: Balancing Medical and Patient Perspectives presented by Dr Louise Austin (University of Leicester). You can watch the presentation now on the MI media channel:.
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Join us on Tuesday, 26 November from 13:00 - 14:00 (GMT) for the final MI webinar of the semester, 'One Health Ethics: Just(ice) Do It - Why Including Animals as Subjects of Justice May Help Address Global Problems,' presented by Emma Nance. Register here:
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This summer, the Mason Institute hosted a workshop for the RSE funded project, When Borders Change: Public Health, Trade and the Role of Law in the UK and Ireland, led by Prof @amfarrell101 and Prof @MaryDonnellyLaw.
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In September, the Mason Institute hosted a welcome event for the new on-campus LLM in Medical Law & Ethics cohort. Dr @murrayearle spoke to students about the origins of the Institute including the seminal work by the late Prof J. Kenyon Mason, for whom the Institute is named.
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Join us on 19 Nov from 1-2pm (GMT) via Zoom for the Mason Institute webinar, 'Reproductive Justice, Telemedical Abortion, and the Experiences of Marginalised Abortion-Seekers in Great Britain' presented by @sabrinakgermain and @ECRomanis. Register here:
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RT @JamieDWebb: Very pleased to share the first piece of published research from my PhD: an ethical analysis of the relationship between pa….
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The impact of machine learning in healthcare on patient informed consent is now the subject of significant inquiry in bioethics. However, the topic has predominantly been considered in the context ...
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Join us for the upcoming MI webinar entitled 'A Staged Analysis of Informed Consent: Balancing Medical and Patient Perspectives' presented by Dr Louise Austin. Tues, 12 November 2024 from 13:00 - 14:00 (GMT) via Zoom. Registration: . All are welcome!
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