An End to Feeling Shattered?
Thursday 28 February, 19.00-20.30
If you didn't have to sleep at night imagine how much more you could achieve and experience. Or does the thought of no more long lie-ins make you feel ill? Should drugs used by the military and for treatment of narcolepsy become lifestyle drugs for the mainstream? What would be the impact on your body, your relationships and your life? We already use drugs to avoid pregnancy, stop headaches and prevent impotence…what makes sleep any different?
Join a panel of outspoken speakers to debate whether drugs are the answer to 21st-century life.
Speakers
John Harris, Professor of Bioethics, University of Manchester.
Danielle Turner, Neuroscience Coordinator, University of Cambridge.
Simon Williams, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick.
Facilitator
Toby Murcott, science writer and presenter.
This event is free.
This is a BSL interpreted event.
John Harris
I am Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester and joint Editor-in-Chief of 'The Journal of Medical Ethics'. I have been a Human Genetics Commissioner of the United Kingdom since the foundation of The Human Genetics Commission in 1999 and am a member of the Medical Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association. On 1 September 2006, the 'Independent' nominated me as one of “the 50 men and women who make our world a better place”.
Danielle Turner
I am a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Psychiatry, and work within the University of Cambridge Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute. My main research interest is in cognitive enhancement - both the psychopharmacology of cognition and the ethics of enhancing performance in different groups of people. I have worked with healthy volunteers, and groups of patients including those with schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Simon Williams
I am Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. My recent research has focused on sleep and society, including a single authored book 'Sleep and Society' (2005, Routledge), a special (co-edited) section of the journal 'Sociological Research Online' on ‘Gender, Sleep and the Lifecourse’, and a recently completed Economic and Social Research (ESRC) interdisciplinary seminar series on ‘Sleep and Society’. My current research is focused on modafinil, including on-going work on media reportage of the drug.
