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Speakers:
Prof Dame Marilyn Strathern, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Mr Keith Rigg, Transplant Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Hugh Whittall, Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics
This briefing launched a consultation run by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on how to respond to the high demand for human organs and tissue for donations and research, and the ethics of how to encourage more people to donate bodily materials such as organs, eggs and sperm.