JONATHAN GLOVER 19 NOVEMBER 2016 THE INAUGURAL LANSON LECTURES IN BIOETHICS Discussant: Alastair Campbell TWO CONCEPTS OF DIGNITY Professor Glover is as well as the moral Professor of Ethics at resources that bring Free Admission “Dignity” is one of the most Professor Glover' s work King’s College humanity back often used terms in bioethics, forges connections between London, and was from the brink time Director of its Centre and again. His most and yet is the least well moral philosophy, the of Medical Law and recent book, Alien understood. In the Inaugural history of ideas, psychology, Ethics from 1998 to Landscapes: For registration, visit: Lanson Lecture in Bioethics, and bioethics. The range 2007. He has authored Interpreting http://tinyurl.com/lans Professor Jonathan Glover will and depth of Professor seven books, Disordered Minds onlectures contrast two versions of Glover’s thinking are of including Causing (2014), is “a respect for dignity. The first is huge importance today, Death and Saving searching, humane Date: about not humiliating people. when the post 1945 Lives (1977), which is look at the lives of Saturday, 19 November The second (expressed consensus on international now a classic. What the mentally 2016 particularly by the co-operation and a shared Sort of People Should ill”(The New Enlightenment philosopher moral vision are under There Be? (1984) was Scientist). He Time: Immanuel Kant) is about major threat from influences the first philosophical chaired a European 2:30 - 4:30 pm showing respect for as diverse as Trump’s book ever written on Commission Registration starts at someone’s moral standing. divisive rhetoric, the the ethics of genetic Working Party on 1:45 p.m. The latter version is rejection of the European choices and (in its Assisted second half) the first Reproduction; the frequently used in bioethics, ideal in Brexit, and the book on what is now Glover Report was Venue: for instance in appeals to the upsurge of racism and called “neuroethics.” published in 1989. Lecture Theatre 1, dignity of the embryo, and chauvinistic nationalism in Choosing Children: Cheng Yu Tung dignity objections to many different regions of Genes, Disability and Professor Alastair euthanasia, assisted suicide the world. Building, The Chinese Design (2006) V. Campbell, University of Hong and various genetic choices, descended from his Visiting Professor Kong, Shatin, N.T. , including 'enhancement'. Inaugural Uehiro in Medical Ethics Hong Kong. Glover will argue that appeals Lecture in Practical and Emeritus to this version of dignity are Ethics delivered at Director, Centre for For more examples of an approach to Oxford University. Biomedical Ethics information: ethics that is abstract, rather His widely acclaimed of the National than rooted in empathy for book, Humanity: A University of Moral History of the bioethics.med.cuhk.e people. He will go on to Singapore, will contend that an empathy- Twentieth Century offer his reflections du.hk (1999) is about the based version is preferable on Professor [email protected] psychology that Glover’s lecture as hk.edu.hk and sketch out this approach makes a slide into with reference to respect for a discussant. 3943 9467 barbarism possible, dignity in psychiatry. .