Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment from Patients in a Vegetative or Minimally Conscious State

Friday 9 May 2014, 9.00am to 5.00pm

Speaker: 

We are pleased to welcome as our Keynote Speaker Mr Justice (Sir Jonathan) Baker of the High Court Family Division who has presided over a number of highly influential cases in the Court of Protection

Speakers will include:

• Mr Justice (Sir Jonathan) Baker (Keynote Speaker) 
• Professor Penney Lewis, Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College London 
• Professor Derick Wade, Consultant in Neurological Rehabilitation, Oxford Centre for Enablement 
• Professor Celia Kitzinger, Director of the York Chronic Disorders of Consciousness (CDoC) Research Centre, Sociology Department, 
• University of York 
• Dr Stephen Holland, CDoC Research Centre, Philosophy Department, University of York 
• Professor Simon Halliday, CDoC Research Centre, Law School, University of York 
• Professor Jenny Kitzinger, Director of the Cardiff Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, University of Cardiff 

Full information and a registration form is online at http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/news-and-events/department/2014/withdrawing-treatment/