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Aug
22
6:00 PM18:00

Perth Premiere, Australia

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Hard To Believe will have the Perth Premiere at City West Receptions, followed by a Q&A panel discussion, on August 22 (Monday), from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. 

Timeline:

  • 5.45pm               Registration
  • 6pm                    Welcome to Country
  • 6.05pm               Introduction and film screening
  • 7pm - 8pm          Film review and Q&A
  • 8pm - 8.30pm    Networking and light refreshments

Q&A Panel

Ethan Gutman - Award-winning China analyst and human-rights investigator (featured in the film)

Professor Doug Hodgson, BA, LLB, LLM - Dean of The University of Notre Dame Australia School of Law, Fremantle Campus

Stephen Honeybul, FRCS (SN), FRACS - Head of Department of Neurosurgery at Royal Perth Hospital, Head of Department of Neurosurgery at Fiona Stanley Hospital and a Consultant neurosurgeon at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 

Prof Wendy Rogers FRACGP, PhD (via video call) - Professor of Clinical Ethics, Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics

For detailed speaker biographies please scroll down

Supported by:

  • The Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
  • The Australian Council for Human Rights Education

Independent Moderator

  • Gerry Georgatos

Venue address

City West Receptions - 45 Plaistowe Mews, West Perth, WA 6005, Australia (map)

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FAQs

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?

Complimentary parking is available for all delegates attending the function centre providing a VALID PARKING PERMIT is clearly displayed on your dashboard.  Instructions and PARKING PERMIT will be emailed closer to the date.

By train - Catch the train one stop to ‘City West’ from the Perth City train station on the Fremantle line.

By bus - Catch the free green CAT bus service and get off at stops 10 or 12 (City West Station).

Visit Transperth to check timetables and plan your journey.


Speaker biographies in detail

  • Ethan Gutmann  (featured in the film)

Ethan Gutmann, an award-winning China analyst and human-rights investigator, is the author of the award winning book Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. He has written widely on China issues for publications such as the Wall Street Journal Asia, Investor’s Business Daily, Weekly Standard, National Review, and World Affairs Journal, and he has provided testimony and briefings to the United States Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the European Parliament, the International Society for Human Rights in Geneva, the United Nations, and the parliaments of Canada, Australia, Ireland, Scotland and the United Kingdom.  A former foreign-policy analyst at the Brookings Institution, Gutmann has appeared on PBS, CNN, BBC, and CNBC. His book The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution To Its Dissident Problem was released in 2015.

Ethan is one of three researchers who just released a ground breaking report An Update to Bloody Harvest and The Slaughter. Ethan will give personal insights regarding this new report, which meticulously examines the transplant programs of hundreds of hospitals in China, drawing on media reports, official propaganda, medical journals, hospital websites and a vast amount of deleted websites found in archives. ethan-gutmann.com     

  • Prof Wendy Rogers, FRACGP, PhD (via video call)
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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. Professor Rogers’ 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.

  • Prof Doug Hodgson, BA, LLB, LLM
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Prof Hodgson’s career as a legal educator/academic lawyer has spanned 33 years and four countries (Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand).  His teaching and research interests include International Human Rights Law, International Refugee Law, International Criminal Law, and Public International Law.  He has published three treatises, one edited book and 30 peer-reviewed law journal articles and received numerous teaching citations.  Professor Hodgson serves as a Peer Reviewer and Grants Assessor for the Australian Research Council and serves as Chair of the Research Degrees and Scholarships Committee of The University of Notre Dame Australia.  He is also an attender and alumnist of the Oxford Round Table and the Melbourne-based Cranlana Leadership Program.  He has contributed to the German-based Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law and is a member of the Council of Australian Law Deans and a Member and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. 

Prof Hodgson is currently Dean of The University of Notre Dame Australia School of Law, Fremantle Campus, and previously served as Associate Dean of Students at the Faculty of Law, The University of Western Australia.  He is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and the University of London (London School of Economics and University College London).

  • Stephen Honeybul. FRCS (SN), FRACS
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Mr Honeybul is a neurosurgeon with a subspecialty interest in neurovascular surgery and neurotrauma. He is currently a Consultant neurosurgeon at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Head of Department of Neurosurgery at Royal Perth Hospital and at Fiona Stanley Hospital. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons a member of the Neurological Society of Australasia. He is a past member of the Neurosurgical Board of Australia and is currently an examiner for the neurosurgical fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of surgeons Current interests involve long term outcome following decompressive craniectomy and ethical issues regarding life saving but non restorative surgery. He is also involved in ongoing research investigating cranial reconstruction augmented with stem cell therapy.


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Aug
15
7:15 PM19:15

Melbourne Premiere, Australia

Hard To Believe will be screened at the University of Melbourne on August 18 (Thursday), 2016, at 7:15 PM. 

Melbourne Brain Centre (Image: The University of Melbourne)

Melbourne Brain Centre (Image: The University of Melbourne)

A documentary by two-time Emmy Award-Winning Director, Ken Stone, on the killing of prisoners of conscience for their organs in China today. Find out why doctors became murderers and why the world turned a blind eye.

Followed by Keynote speakers featured in the documentary Ethan Guttmann, an award-winning China analyst, human-rights investigator and an award-winning author, a Q&A and a book signing opportunity.

Refreshments provided

Supported by: 

International Coalition to End Organ Pillaging in China

The Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
The Australian Council for Human Rights Education

This is a not for profit event. 

Q&A and book signing opportunity

Tickets from https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/melbourne-premiere-hard-to-believe-tickets-26558091968

Ethan Gutmann, featured in the documentary is an award-winning China analyst, human-rights investigator and an award-winning author. He has written widely on China issues for publications such as the Wall Street Journal Asia, Investor’s Business Daily, Weekly Standard, National Review,and World Affairs Journal, and he has provided testimony and briefings to the United States Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the European Parliament, the International Society for Human Rights in Geneva, the United Nations, and the parliaments of Canada, Australia, Ireland, Scotland and the United Kingdom. A former foreign-policy analyst at the Brookings Institution, Gutmann has appeared on PBS, CNN, BBC, and CNBC. His book The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution To Its Dissident Problem was released in 2015.

Ethan is one of three researchers who just released a ground breaking report An Update to Bloody Harvest and The Slaughter. Ethan will give personal insights regarding this new report, which meticulously examines the transplant programs of hundreds of hospitals in China, drawing on media reports, official propaganda, medical journals, hospital websites and a vast amount of deleted websites found in archives.

He has won awards for his book, Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. 

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Aug
12
6:45 PM18:45

Gold Coast Premiere, Australia

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READ FILM SYNOPSIS

"Hard To Believe" will have the Gold Coast Premiere, followed by a Q&A panel, on August 12 (Friday), 2016, from 6:45 PM to 9:30 PM (AEST). 

Guest speakers on the panel:

  • Ethan Gutmann, Award-winning China analyst and human-rights investigator (featured in the film)  
  • Dr Thomas Titus, MBBS, MD, MRCP, D.Phil (Oxford), FRACP Associate Prof & Senior Staff Specialist in Nephrology

Timeline:

  • 6:45 PM - 7:00 PM:  Start
  • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM:  Screening of Hard to Believe movie
  • 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Q&A panel (see below for speaker biographies)
  • 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM:  Meet the panel and mingle (light refreshments provided)

Q&A panel speakers

  • Ethan Gutmann

Ethan Gutmann, an award-winning China analyst and human-rights investigator, is the author of the award winning book Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. He has written widely on China issues for publications such as the Wall Street Journal Asia, Investor’s Business Daily, Weekly Standard, National Review, and World Affairs Journal, and he has provided testimony and briefings to the United States Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the European Parliament, the International Society for Human Rights in Geneva, the United Nations, and the parliaments of Canada, Australia, Ireland, Scotland and the United Kingdom.  A former foreign-policy analyst at the Brookings Institution, Gutmann has appeared on PBS, CNN, BBC, and CNBC. His book The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution To Its Dissident Problem was released in 2015.

Ethan is one of three researchers who just released a ground breaking report An Update to Bloody Harvest and The Slaughter. Ethan will give personal insights regarding this new report, which meticulously examines the transplant programs of hundreds of hospitals in China, drawing on media reports, official propaganda, medical journals, hospital websites and a vast amount of deleted websites found in archives. ethan-gutmann.com   

  • Dr Thomas Titus

Dr Thomas Titus is a Nephrologist at Gold Coast University Hospital as well as in the private sector. He has extensive experience in Nephrology in Australia. His area of particular interest includes diabetic renal disease, chronic kidney disease and transplantation.  

Supported by:

  • The Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
  • Australian Council for Human Rights Education

Local contact: Nina 0424 670 349

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Film Synopsis

IT’S HAPPENED BEFORE: Governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this.

It’s happened so often that the world doesn’t always pay attention. But is economic influence the reason, that this time, it’s going largely unreported? It’s hard to believe that doctors would carve up innocent people so their organs could be sold. It’s even harder to believe that major media are not investigating. Yet it happened tens of thousands of times, and may be happening still.

Hard to Believe is a documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response—or lack of it—around the world. Produced by Swoop Films, two-time Emmy Award-winning director/producer, Ken Stone, and Irene Silber. 

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WATCH HARD TO BELIEVE TRAILER 2

Reviews

“The first sustained examination into why the world is so willing to turn a blind eye to ‘one of the most catastrophic human rights violations in our time’.”

— Daily Mail

“An important, timely and deeply disturbing account of one of the great human rights abuses of our time.”

— Dr. Arthur Caplan, PhD, Founding Director of the Division of Medical Ethics, NYU

“Why the world has failed to act in the face of overwhelming evidence.”

— The Daily Beast

“Exposes the widespread Chinese government practice of executing political prisoners and selling their organs to ‘transplant tourists’.”

— Broadway World

“The first ever full insight into this trade and how the majority of the entire planet is turning a blind eye.”

— The LAD Bible

“Delves into the truth – or untruth – concerning live organ harvesting in China.”

— Kicker Daily News

“A scandal that sullies the image of organ transplantation – I strongly recommend viewing the shocking truth of how one country has transcended from giving the gift of life to the willful taking.”

— Adnan Sharif, Consultant Nephrologist, Renal Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

“An important film that hopefully will shock the world and cause deep reflection.”

— Professor Katrina A. Bramstedt, PhD, Ethicist, Bond University, Australia

“HARD TO BELIEVE dives into a topic that is utterly disturbing for the medical profession and society in the 21st century. The true horror of this crime is summed up in the few words of Chinese surgeon, Dr. E. Tohti: “Remember… nothing happened today.”

— Torsten Trey, M.D., PhD, Executive Director, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH)


Local contact: Nina 0424 670 349

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Venue address

Lecture Theatre G30_1.09 Arts and Education 1, Griffith University, Parklands Drive, Southport

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Aug
11
6:45 PM18:45

Brisbane Premiere, Australia

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"Hard To Believe" will have the Brisbane Premiere, followed by a Q&A panel, on August 11 (Thursday), 2016, from 6:45 PM to 9:30 PM (AEST). 

Guest speakers on the panel:

  • Ethan Gutmann, Award-winning China analyst and human-rights investigator (featured in the film)  
  • Dr Sarah Winch, CEO Health Ethics Australia and Head, Discipline of Medical Ethics, Law and Professionalism, School of Medicine at The University of Queensland
  • Benedict Coyne, National President, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights

Timeline:

  • 6:45 PM - 7:00 PM:  Start
  • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM:  Screening of Hard to Believe movie
  • 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Q&A panel (see below for speaker biographies)
  • 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM:  Meet the panel and mingle (drinks and canapes provided)

Q&A Panel Speakers

  • Ethan Gutmann
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Ethan Gutmann is the author of the award winning book Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. He has written widely on China issues for publications such as the Wall Street Journal Asia, Investor’s Business Daily, Weekly Standard, National Review, and World Affairs Journal, and he has provided testimony and briefings to the United States Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the European Parliament, the International Society for Human Rights in Geneva, the United Nations, and the parliaments of Ottawa, Canberra, Dublin, Edinburgh, and London. A former foreign-policy analyst at the Brookings Institution, Gutmann has appeared on PBS, CNN, BBC, and CNBC. His most recent book is The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution To Its Dissident Problem.

  • Dr Sarah Winch
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Dr Sarah Winch is a healthcare ethicist employed at the School of Medicine, The University of Queensland where she is Head of the Discipline of Medical Ethics, Law and Professionalism. Sarah consults to clinicians on issues of ethical concern, most commonly, on end of life matters. She has published over 50 academic journal articles and book chapters in ethics, the history of ideas, evidence based practice and research capacity building, and has acquitted over $3 million in competitive research funding. In her spare time she is the CEO of Health Ethics Australia, a not for profit charity that focuses on improving death literacy for Australians and compassion safety for clinicians.

  • Benedict Coyne

Benedict Coyne is a human rights lawyer based in Brisbane at law firm Anderson Fredericks Turner. He is also the national President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR).  ALHR is a national network of Australian solicitors, barristers, academics, judicial officers and law students who practise and promote international human rights law in Australia. Benedict recently graduated with Distinction from a Master of Studies in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. In 2009 he completed his undergraduate law degree at Southern Cross University and was awarded the university medal for outstanding academic achievement. Benedict is a passionate advocate for human rights both domestically and internationally and has received numerous awards for his work including the Australian Lawyers Alliance/Amnesty International 2014 National Emerging Lawyer of the Year Award and the 2015 Qld Civil Justice Award. 

Supported by:

  • The Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
  • Australian Council for Human Rights Education

Local contact: Vlad 0410 331 851

Limited Seating - Book Now!


Film Synopsis

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IT’S HAPPENED BEFORE: Governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this.

It’s happened so often that the world doesn’t always pay attention. But is economic influence the reason, that this time, it’s going largely unreported? It’s hard to believe that doctors would carve up innocent people so their organs could be sold. It’s even harder to believe that major media are not investigating. Yet it happened tens of thousands of times, and may be happening still.

Hard to Believe is a documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response—or lack of it—around the world. Produced by Swoop Films, two-time Emmy Award-winning director/producer, Ken Stone, and Irene Silber. 

WATCH HARD TO BELIEVE TRAILER 2

Reviews

“The first sustained examination into why the world is so willing to turn a blind eye to ‘one of the most catastrophic human rights violations in our time’.”

— Daily Mail

“An important, timely and deeply disturbing account of one of the great human rights abuses of our time.”

— Dr. Arthur Caplan, PhD, Founding Director of the Division of Medical Ethics, NYU

“Why the world has failed to act in the face of overwhelming evidence.”

— The Daily Beast

“Exposes the widespread Chinese government practice of executing political prisoners and selling their organs to ‘transplant tourists’.”

— Broadway World

“The first ever full insight into this trade and how the majority of the entire planet is turning a blind eye.”

— The LAD Bible

“Delves into the truth – or untruth – concerning live organ harvesting in China.”

— Kicker Daily News

“A scandal that sullies the image of organ transplantation – I strongly recommend viewing the shocking truth of how one country has transcended from giving the gift of life to the willful taking”

— Adnan Sharif, Consultant Nephrologist, Renal Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

“An important film that hopefully will shock the world and cause deep reflection.”

— Professor Katrina A. Bramstedt, PhD, Ethicist, Bond University, Australia

“HARD TO BELIEVE dives into a topic that is utterly disturbing for the medical profession and society in the 21st century. The true horror of this crime is summed up in the few words of Chinese surgeon, Dr. E. Tohti: “Remember… nothing happened today.”

— Torsten Trey, M.D., PhD, Executive Director, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH)


Local contact: Vlad 0410 331 851


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Aug
4
5:30 PM17:30

NSW Parliament House, Sydney, Australia

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On August 4th, 2016, Hard To Believe will be screened at the NSW Parliament House from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (AEST), followed by a Q&A panel discussion.

Guest speakers on the panel:

Ethan Gutmann - Award-winning China analyst and human-rights investigator (featured in the film) 

Enver Tohti - former surgeon, China (Thurs only - via video call from UK - featured in the film)

Prof. Maria Fiatarone Singh - Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Medical Advisory Board Member of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting

Prof. Wendy Rogers - Professor of Clinical Ethics, Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics

For detailed speaker biographies please scroll down.

 

Supported by:

  • The Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
  • The Australian Council for Human Rights Education

Co-presented by:

  • International Coalition to End Organ Pillaging in China (Endorganpillaging.org)

Hosted by:

  • David Shoebridge MLC

Venue address:

NSW Parliament House - Theatrette - 6 Macquarie St, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia (map)

Speaker biographies in detail

  • Ethan Gutmann (featured in the film)
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Ethan Gutmann, an award-winning China analyst and human-rights investigator, is the author of the award winning book Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. He has written widely on China issues for publications such as the Wall Street Journal Asia, Investor’s Business Daily, Weekly Standard, National Review, and World Affairs Journal, and he has provided testimony and briefings to the United States Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the European Parliament, the International Society for Human Rights in Geneva, the United Nations, and the parliaments of Ottawa, Canberra, Dublin, Edinburgh, and London. A former foreign-policy analyst at the Brookings Institution, Gutmann has appeared on PBS, CNN, BBC, and CNBC. His most recent book is The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution To It’s Dissident Problem.     

Ethan is one of three researchers who just released a ground breaking report An Update to Research On Organ Harvesting in China. Ethan will give personal insights regarding this new report, which meticulously examines the transplant programs of hundreds of hospitals in China, drawing on media reports, official propaganda, medical journals, hospital websites and a vast amount of deleted websites found in archives, ethan-gutmann.com. 

  • Enver Tohti (featured in the film - via video call - 4th Aug only)
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Enver Tohti worked for over 13 years at the Railway Central Hospital in Xinjiang, China, as a surgical oncologist. After discovering the connection between the disproportionately high malignant tumour rate and the nuclear test in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, he exposed the devastating effect of the nuclear test by making the documentary film Death On the Silk Road. As a result he was compelled to quit the PRC and seek asylum in the UK.

Upon settling in London he continued to promote knowledge about the shocking consequences of nuclear testing in the Lupnor (luobopu) area, and fought for the rights of the test victims. Tohti also campaigned for the human rights of the Uyghur people and, for a number of years, headed the Uyghur political activities in the UK. His more rational and realistic stand on the Uyghur issue proved incompatible with the separatist tendencies
of other Uyghur Diaspora organisations based in the West, so he detached himself from the World Uyghur Congress and continued his individual crusade thereafter. Tohti created the online platform Silk Road Dialogue, where various interest groups could share their views and debate controversial issues in a civilized manner.

  • Prof Maria Fiatarone Singh
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Professor Fiatarone Singh is a geriatrician whose research, clinical, and teaching career has focused on the integration of medicine, exercise physiology, and nutrition as a means to improve health status and quality of life across the lifespan. She has held the inaugural John Sutton Chair of Exercise and Sport Science in the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Professorship, Sydney Medical School, at the University of Sydney since 1999, and has been awarded many grants from the government and other funding bodies to conduct research into exercise and aging. She is the founding director of the Fit for Your Life Foundation, an international non-profit organization,  and co-founded the STRONG Clinic at Balmain Hospital.  She has published extensively in the area of health implications of exercise and nutrition and is actively involved as a Medical Advisory Board member of the international group DAFOH (Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting).

  • Prof Wendy Rogers
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Wendy Rogers is a Professor of Clinical Ethics and Deputy Director, 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 Ethical Guidelines on 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 over diagnosis. 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).   

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