Posted on 17 March 2009. Tags: Health, Police, black deaths in custody, custody deaths, de montford, justice, leicester, sickle cell, univeersity
Sickle Cell and Deaths in Custodyconference
The Unit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and
Sickle Cell (TASC Unit) at De Montfort University, Leicester is pleased
to present this exclusive one day conference.
The conference examines Sickle Cell disorders, healthcare
neglect in prisons, racism in the criminal justice system and the
introduction of specialist custody nursing Sickle Cell and deaths in
custody dmu.ac.uk/conference/sickle-cell
Wednesday 10 June 2009 – £130
You will receive a FREE copy of
Professor Simon Dyson and Professor Gwyneth Boswell’s new
groundbreaking book Sickle Cell and
Deaths in Custody (London: Whiting & Birch) worth £50.
Speakers include
- Professor Guy Rutty - member of the British Association in Forensic Medicine, the Pathological Society of
Great Britain and Ireland, British Medical Association, and
Editor-in-Chief of the journal Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology
- Dr Adebayo Olujohungbe – consultant haematologist at the University Hospital Aintree NHS Foundation Trust,
Liverpool, Chief Investigator of the Priapism In Sickle Cell Study
(PISCES) and Medical Adviser to the Sickle Cell Society
- INQUEST – an ‘award-winning’ campaigning organisation founded in 1981 providing a specialist comprehensive
advice service to bereaved people, lawyers, the media, MPs and the
wider public on contentious deaths and their investigation
If you would like further information please email Hayley
Robinson conferences@dmu.ac.uk
or call (0116) 250 6213. |
