[SydPhil] Invitation to film screening with panel discussion featuring Wendy Rogers

[Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics]

Hi all,


You are invited to a film screening of the Australian premier for the award-winning documentary, Hard to Believe<http://www.hardtobelievemovie.com/new-events/2016/8/3/australian-premiere>, which is about organ harvesting in China. It's being shown on two nights (NEXT WEEK), and will be followed by a panel discussion which will include CAVE member Wendy Rogers. There will also be a Q&A.

IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE: Governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it's never happened like this.
Hard To Believe examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around the world.

This documentary is extremely important for those involved in organ donation and transplantation, human rights, healthcare, ethics and the law. The credentials of the interviewed experts are impeccable. - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

Screening 1:

Date: Wed 3rd August

Time: 18:45

Venue: Event Cinemas, 525 George Street, Sydney

Cost: $15

Registration link: www.hardtobelievesydney.eventbrite.com.au<http://www.hardtobelievesydney.eventbrite.com.au>


Screening 2:

Date: Thurs 4th August

Time: 17:30

Venue: NSW Parliament House, Theatrette, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney

Cost: $15

Registration link: www.hardtobelievesydney2.eventbrite.com.au<http://www.hardtobelievesydney2.eventbrite.com.au>


Ticket enquiries: rsvp at unseen.is


More information in the attached PDF or on the Hard To Believe website<http://www.hardtobelievemovie.com/new-events/2016/8/3/australian-premiere>.


About Wendy Rogers (FRACGP, PhD):

Prof. Rogers is a Professor of Clinical Ethics and Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics. She has a long-standing interest in the ethics of organ donation and transplantation. While a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee (2003-2006), she served as deputy chair of the working party responsible for developing the National Health and Medical Research Council's guidelines for organ and tissue donation. She also served on working parties developing national guidance on donation after circulatory death. Her current research interests include organ donation, research ethics, ethics of surgical practice, and overdiagnosis. Wendy's work is widely published in international journals and she is the co-editor of a recent collection on Vulnerability (published by Oxford University Press). Professor Rogers recently spoke at the Scottish Parliament on a panel addressing the issue of forced organ harvesting in China.


Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE)
Department of Philosophy
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
CAVE website: mq.edu.au/cave<http://cave.mq.edu.au>
www.facebook.com/MQCAVE<http://www.facebook.com/MQCAVE>

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