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Bio-Ethics Bites

Status Quo Bias

Suppose a genetic engineering breakthrough made it simple, safe and cheap to increase people's intelligence.
Anthropology

Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Oxford's 'Two Bodies' in Medical Anthropology

This presentation by Dr Caroline Potter (ISCA, Oxford) focuses on how Oxford's Medicial Anthropology bridges the biological and social divide. It was delivered at the 10 Years at the Intersections conference in June 2011.
Bio-Ethics Bites

Designer Babies

The term 'designer baby' is usually used in a pejorative sense - to conjure up some dystopian Brave New World. There are already ways to affect what kind of children you have - most obviously by choosing the partner to have them with.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Systems Science and Inequalities in Obesity in England - Findings from an Agent-Based Model

Abdulrahman El-Sayid, DPhil Student, British Heart Foundation, Oxford, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Fizzyology: genetics, metabolic effects health outcomes and politics of high sugar

Michael Goran gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The phenomenology of binge eating in anorexia and bulimia

Karin Eli, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Digital image capture in public health surveillance for physical activity and food behaviour assessment

Paul Kelly and Aiden Doherty give a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Affective hunger: bread and famine in ethiopian christian spirituality

Cressida Marcus gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Why do we dislike obese people?

Kerry O'Brien, Senior lecturer, University of Manchester and Monash University, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Insights into the Development of Wellbeing in the Very Long Run

Nikola Koepke gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series entitled: Insights into the Development of Wellbeing in the Very Long Run: Status of Pe-Historic and Historic Europe.
Alumni Weekend

Sleep in the Global 24/7 Society

Professor Foster gives a talk on some of the causes and consequences of sleep disruption and explores how our increasingly sleep deprived society is have unanticipated consequences for out physical and mental health.
Alumni Weekend

Pheromones: what animals (including humans) say with smell

Tristram Wyatt gives a talk on 'The Science of Smell' - Pheromones, outlining their discovery, their chemistry and how animals (and humans) interact through smell. Part of the 2008 Oxford Alumni Weekend.
Alumni Weekend

The Kadoorie Study in China

Zhengming Chen, Professor of Epidemiology, gives a talk on the Kadoorie Biobank study, a joint Chinese and British study looking at the lifestyles of 500,000 people and presents some of the findings that can be used to influence public health policy.

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