Thursday, 4 March 2010, 7.00pm
Doctors in the Dock
Professor Margaret Brazier
Professor of Law, University of Manchester
Professor
Brazier will present an analysis of the role of the criminal justice system in
regulating medical (mal) practice and ethics in the UK and will evaluate how
far the engagement of the criminal processwith medicine is constructive or, to
the contrary, destructive of good medicine.
Geoffrey Manton Building, MMU, Oxford Road, Manchester
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Monday, 8 March 2010, 7.00pm
So What Do You Do For The Rest Of The Year?
Glyn Foley
Chief Executive, Buxton Festival
Over the past decade the Buxton Festival has tripled its audience, won numerous awards and firmly established itself as a national opera festival. Glyn joined the festival in 1998 and has been involved in all aspects of music. His talk should shed some light on what’s involved in the trials and tribulations of mounting a major festival.
Royal Northern College of Music, Booth Street West, Manchester
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Thursday, 18th March 2010, 7.00pm
The Politics of Climate Change
Derek Norman
Chairman of the Regional Environment Protection Advisory Agency
This presentation will examine the public's resistance to climate change mitigation measures. A recent Government survey suggests the UK population is broadly split into three groups which the speaker calls technocrats', 'good lifers' and 'fatalists'. After hearing the lecture listeners should be better equipped to forecast whether the technocrats and/or the good lifers will succeed in retaining a bearable climate.
Royal Northern College of Music, Booth Street West, Manchester
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Tuesday, 23rd March 2010, 7.00pm
Food and Infectious Diseases
Professor Sarah o'Brienn
Professor of Health Sciences and Epidemiology, University of Manchester
Professor O’Brien is a leading expert on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, focusing on foodborne diseases. Her areas of research include both national and international perspectives. She is Chairman of the UK government’s Advisory Committee on Microbiological Safety of Food.
The presentation will focus on situations of current concern to the general public
MANDEC, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester
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