The Linacre Centre is a Roman Catholic academic institute that engages with the moral questions arising in clinical practice and biomedical research. It brings to bear on those questions principles of natural law, virtue ethics, and the teaching of the Catholic Church, and seeks to develop the implications of that teaching for emerging fields of practice. The Centre engages in scholarly dialogue with academics and practitioners of other traditions. It contributes to public policy debates as well as to debates and consultations within the Church. It runs educational programmes for, and gives advice to, Catholics and other interested healthcare professionals and biomedical scientists.

The Linacre Centre can help you consider questions such as:

What's wrong with cloning? 

Is euthanasia ever justified?

How should couples respond to fertility problems?

When, if ever, may a doctor perform an abortion?

When can we safely say a person has died?

What about the law?...

***NEWS*** 

NEW - International conference on Fertility, Infertility and Gender in Maynooth, Ireland, 16-18 June 2010 - flyer and booking form now available.

NEW - Centre publication: Incapacity and Care: Controversies in Healthcare and Research. See our Bookshop to order.

NEW - Dates and speakers for the Linacre Ethics Forum in London

NEW - The Centre in Oxford

The Linacre Centre website offers:

• online papers on bioethical topics , including submissions to Government committees and other official bodies

• publications on bioethics from our bookshop

• contact details for a bioethics reference library of over 7,000 titles which is open to researchers

• contact details for public lectures, conferences and seminars for chaplains, nurses, doctors, teachers, and school and university students

• expert advice and consultancy for individuals, working parties and organisations such as the Catholic Bishops' Joint Bioethics Committee 
  (of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland).

Under the Trusteeship of the Catholic Trust for England and Wales, the Linacre Centre is the only Catholic bioethics centre in the UK and Ireland.  It is based at 17 Beaumont Street, Oxford, in offices provided by Blackfriars Hall, a Permanent Private Hall of Oxford University.