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Futures in the Making

Professor Barbara Adam, Dr Chris Groves, Dr Elen Stokes and Dr Catherine Butler

Friday 24th May, 7pm, Landmarc 100 Stage, £5

What power do we hold over the future? And how do we take care of a future world we decisively shape but may not live to see? A series of short interconnected talks examine futures in the context of law, energy and new technologies. Sociologists Barbara Adam and Catherine Butler, philosopher Chris Groves and legal scholar Elen Stokes introduce a discussion on how futures are made, known and acted upon in these different social worlds.

This is the first in the Cardiff Series 2013

Statue of Aneurin Bevan, Queen Street, Cardiff

A Moral Conception of the NHS

Dr Andrew Edgar

Tuesday 28th May, 7pm, Digital Stage, £5

An exclusive emphasis upon efficiency leads to a fundamental misunderstanding of the true moral nature of a national health service.  Recent failures in the NHS, including concerns over managerialism and a target led culture, the perceived failure to treat patients with dignity and compassion, and perhaps most dramatically the recent Francis Report into the failures of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, express these moral issues. Viewed as a 'civil association', it is through the NHS that we, as a community, express and put into practice our sense of morality.