King's College London , Centre for Medical Law and Ethics

The Centre, part of the School of Law, was opened in 1978 to undertake research, organise teaching and publish papers concerning issues in medicine involving law and ethics. It draws on the expertise of staff in numerous schools and departments including medicine and theology and offers undergraduate course units and an MA and Diploma programme. The ECBIOMED-1 Project into Persistent Vegetative State was funded by the European Commission under the auspices of their European Biomedical Health Record Programme. Work commenced in 1994 and was co-ordinated by the Centre under the Directorship of Professor Andrew Grubb. It constituted a comparative survey undertaken in eight European countries of the opinions of doctors and health care professionals with experience of patients suffering from trauma of the brain.