Battle of Ideas 2014
Festival weekend: Health & Well-being
Saturday 18 October: 10.00-11.30
Contemporary Controversies Hammerson Room
The FGM controversy
Saturday 18 October: 17.30-18.45
Legal Challenges Pit Theatre
Community Treatment Orders: the psychiatric ASBO?
Sunday 19 October: 10.00-11.30
Biomedical Battles Pit Theatre
Dose of reality: the ethics and politics of drug development
Sunday 19 October: 14.00-15.30
Biomedical Battles Pit Theatre
The science of public health: where’s the evidence?

'Cinderella Law': criminalising parental authority?

"Although 'battle' suggests destruction, these were some of the most constructive debates I've taken part in. This was civilised conflict in the best sense of both words."
Julian Baggini, author, Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind, and The Ego Trick

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