Titel: McGill Bioethics Conference 2005 - Living Ethics: From Stem Cells to Life Extension

Termin: 11.11.2005, 9:00 Uhr, bis 12.11.2005, 19:00 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort:
Montreal , Kanada

Weitere Informationen:
http://bioethics.sus.mcgill.ca/

Kurzbeschreibung: Bioethics concerns the ethical questions that arise in the relationships between biology, medicine, cybernetics, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. Disagreement exists about the proper scope for the application of ethical evaluation to questions involving biology. Some bioethicists would narrow ethical evaluation only to the morality of medical treatments or technological innovations, and the timing of medical treatment of humans. Other bioethicists would broaden the scope of ethical evaluation to include the morality of all actions that might help or harm organisms capable of feeling fear and pain.

Bioethics involves many public policy questions that are often politicized- used to mobilize political constituencies. For this reason, some biologists and others involved in the development of technology have come to see any mention of "bioethics" as an attempt to derail their work and react to it as such, regardless of the true intent. Transhumanist biologists in particular can be prone to this misunderstanding, as they see their work as inherently ethical, and attacks on it as unethical.

Bioethicists focus on using philosophy to help analyze said concerns, though bioethics is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary.

Kontakt: mbec2005@gmail.com

Schlagworte: AIDS, Assistierte Reproduktion, Embryonale Stammzellen, Embryonenforschung, Eugenik/Enhancement, Fortpflanzungsmedizin, Genetische Tests/Beratung, Genforschung/-technik, Genomanalyse, Gentherapie, Klonierung, Lebensbeginn, Lebensende, Lebensverlängerung, Organ-/Gewebetransplantation, Schwangerschaftsabbruch, Sterbehilfe, Tierethik