Moral and Legal Responsibility in the Age of Neuroscience

September 23, 2015 - September 25, 2015
Royal College of Psychiatrists

London
United Kingdom

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THIRD UK CONFERENCE IN PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHIATRY

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS

21 PRESCOT STREET

LONDON E1 8BB

23-25 SEPTEMBER 2015

MORAL AND LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE AGE OF NEUROSCIENCE

The focus of this conference will be moral and legal responsibility in people who have been diagnosed with mental disorders. This is an exciting area in which recent developments in policy and research are casting a new light on old problems.

The conference is not confined to psychiatrists and is open to anyone with an academic, professional or personal interest in this area. We hope to bring speakers from different backgrounds together with the aim of promoting an eclectic, multi-professional approach to this area. We would welcome submissions from patient, offender and victim advocacy groups.

Suitable topics would include the following but submissions in any other related area of scholarship will be considered:

Neuroscience and criminal responsibility

Autonomy and suicide

Recent developments in legal mitigation e.g. ‘loss of control’ defence and diminished responsibility

Agency and responsibility in personality disorder

Assessment of legal capacity

Deprivation of liberty in patients who lack capacity

Responsibilities of clinicians and service users

Responsible research and policy

Psychiatry and political violence

Submissions for oral and poster presentations are invited. Speakers will have 30 minutes for their presentations. A summary no longer than one side of A4 should submitted to the conference organiser, Dr John Callender by 31 January 2015. Please submit by e-mail to [email protected]

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