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About
The Bioethics Centre, formally
established in 1992, grew out of the Bioethics Unit, which
had functioned informally in the (then) Faculty of Medicine
since 1988. Since 2009, the Bioethics Centre has been a
joint Centre of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the
Department of Philosophy.
Bioethics Centre staff are
actively engaged in Bioethics teaching and research, and
provide a consultation service.
Contact
Address:
Bioethics Centre
Faculty of Health Sciences
E47.63 Old Main Building
Groote Schuur Hospital
University of Cape Town
Observatory
7925
Cape Town
South Africa
Phone: (021) 4066115
Fax: (021) 4486815
Email:
bioethics@uct.ac.za
Staff
Director
Emeritus Professor S. Benatar
(Faculty of Health Sciences)
Deputy Director
Professor D. Benatar
(Philosophy Department)
Honorary Senior Lecturer and
Associate Director of the IRENSA programme:
Mr T. Fleischer (Faculty of
Health Sciences)
Senior Lecturers
Dr
L. Henley (Faculty of Health Sciences)
Dr P. Roux (Paediatrics
Department)
Secretary
Ms Joy Hunter
Undergraduate
The
Bioethics Centre is responsible for the teaching of
Bioethics in the (undergraduate) MBChB degree. The teaching
programme is spread over the third, fourth and final years
of the curriculum.
Postgraduate
With generous
funding from the John E. Fogarty International Center of the
US National Institutes of Health, the Bioethics Centre has
been running the International Research Ethics Network of
South Africa (IRENSA) programme since 2003.
Further
details of this programme are available
here.
Bioethics Centre staff also do regular presentations to
various Departments in the Faculty of Health Sciences and
its teaching hospitals. They also speak at refresher
courses, conferences and to various private groups.
Consultations
A
consultation service is provided to hospitals within the UCT
academic complex, and to a limited extent to the private
sector.
Funding and Donors
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US National
Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center
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Dr Hannah
Reeve-Sanders
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Max and Rose
Leiserowitz Trust
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Many smaller
donations have also been gratefully received.
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Page last updated:
2010/07/02 03:19:56 PM
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