The Centre for Biomedical Ethics has the following aims:

• To achieve a national reputation for empirically informed bioethics
• To continue to produce high quality, internationally recognised publications in mainstream/philosophical bioethics
• To assist with ethical issues that arise in clinical practice, including both giving ethics advice to practitioners and providing ethics support to research teams across the School
• To continue to provide excellent teaching in ethics across the Medical School
• To work with the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics to develop projects on the international dimensions of healthcare and healthcare ethics
• To continue to work, with other relevant academics across the University interested in applied ethics, towards giving the University an applied ethics ‘brand’.
• To continue with appropriate external commitments that enhance the reputation of the Centre and the University.

Research at the CBME

• The Centre is research active in the following areas:
• The ethics of parenting
• Empirical bioethics
• Public Health ethics
• Animal welfare and veterinary ethics

For further information, please see the CBME website:

http://www.haps.bham.ac.uk/primarycare/cbme/index.shtml