Paternalism, Children’s Health and Parental Rights Workshop

The workshop will be held both in-person and online on 12^th-13^th September 2022 at Durham University. To register, please send an email to phppproject@gmail.com by 1^st September 2022.

The workshop will consider the limits of parental rights. It will also focus on the ethics of state interference in the family, and the extent to which children’s own decisions and preferences should contribute to medical decision-making and public health policy.

Confirmed speakers:

• David Archard, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and Honorary Vice-President of the Society for Applied Philosophy
• Emma Cave, Professor of Healthcare Law, Durham University; Fellow of the Wolfson Institute for Health and Wellbeing.
• Matthew Clayton, Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Warwick; Convenor of the Children, Education and Philosophy Group.
• Ben Davies, Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford.
• Anca Gheaus, Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the Central European University in Vienna, Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Philosophy and the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
• Dominic Wilkinson, Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford; Consultant Neonatologist, John Radcliffe Hospital; Director of Medical Ethics, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

It will also feature a roundtable discussion on the topic of compulsory childhood vaccination.

Project Organisers:

Jessica Begon (Durham)

Jonathan Parry (LSE)