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Seminar: First do no harm – challenges for psychiatry
Wednesday 18 November 2009 The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE Registration required in advance. 5.30 pm Registration and tea Chair: Chair: Professor Peter Bartlett,...
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Radio: late-onset bipolar disorder
BBC Radio 4, Monday 12 April, 8-8.30pm, and available after broadcast via the iPlayer. From the programme’s website: “From the makers of the Sony award-winning Anatomy of a Car Crash, the series that...
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PhD Studentship: Community treatment orders under the Mental Health Act 2007
The School of Law at the University of Nottingham has been awarded an ESRC 1+3 CASE studentship, jointly with the Care Quality Commission, for a study into the use of community treatment orders under...
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TV: mental health documentaries
Sectioned, BBC Four, Wednesday 19 May, 9-10pm, repeated Thursday 20 May, 1.30-2.30am, available after broadcast via the iPlayer From the BBC Four website: “Powerful documentary which, for the first...
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Seminar: Is there more to mental well-being than the absence of mental...
Wednesday the 8th December, 5pm-7pm Council Room, Strand Campus, King’s College London All are welcome, no registration necessary. Speaking will be: David Armstrong (Professor of Medicine and...
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Lecture: How mental health law discriminates unfairly against people with...
15 November 2010, 1pm at Barnard’s Inn Hall, Gresham College Speaker: Professor George Szmukler, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London Mental health legislation in most jurisdictions...
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Job: Senior Research Officer – Contested Autonomy in Public Policy and...
University of Essex, Department of Philosophy Ref: RE233 Salary: In the range £29,853-£30,747 per annum Closing date: 06/12/10 Interviews are likely to be held: Monday, 20 December 2010 We are looking...
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Conference: Making sense of mental illness: biology, medicine and society
The European Molecular Biology Organization and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory are pleased to announce the 12th EMBO/EMBL multidisciplinary conference on Science & Society, which will...
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Seminars: On mental disorder
Upcoming seminars in the Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College London: Wednesday 26 January 2011 Dr Hanna Pickard, University of Oxford “Responsibility without Blame: Empathy and the...
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Radio: The Lobotomists
BBC Radio 4, available to listen again indefinitely via the iPlayer, repeated on Radio 4 on Wednesday 29 February 2012 at 11am A fascinating programme about the use of leucotomy or lobotomy in...
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Comment: Overreaction? ‘Mentally ill patients sectioned unnecessarily’
The Independent lead today on a story entitled ‘Mentally ill patients sectioned unnecessarily just to gain access to a hospital bed’. To summarise, the House of Commons Select Committee on Health has...
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Seminars: KCL / UCL JOINT BIOETHICS COLLOQUIUM
KCL and UCL now have a substantial number of faculty and PhD students working in bioethics, broadly construed. This colloquium aims to facilitate high-level discussion among these scholars and link...
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Job: Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Law at Northumbria
Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Law Northumbria University -Faculty of Business and Law Ref BAL13/04 Full Time Location: Newcastle upon Tyne Salary: £37,382 – £45,941 Northumbria is a thriving...
View ArticleLecture: Disabling Legal Barriers – The inaugural lecture of Professor Oliver...
3rd November 2016, 5pm Moot Court Room Liberty Building School of Law University of Leeds LS2 9JT This lecture will review the impact of strategic human rights litigation as a tool that can expose...
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The Institute of Mental Health (IMH) at the University of Nottingham invites applications for a scholarship on the above topic, to be funded by the IMH. The scholarship forms part of a developing...
View ArticleJob: Fee-paid Medical Members of the First-tier Tribunal, Health, Education...
An exercise is expected to launch autumn/winter 2017 to identify 50 Fee-paid Medical Members of the First-tier Tribunal, Health Education and Social Care Chamber (HESC) and 10 for the Mental Health...
View ArticleJob: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Judging Values and Participation in...
Location: London Salary: £37,912 to £43,333 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract Placed On: 30th November 2018 Closes: 1st January 2019 Job Ref: 372209 The post is for a fixed-term...
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