Titel: 8th Asian Bioethics Conference: Biotechnology, Culture, and Human Values in Asia and Beyond

Termin: 19.3.2007 bis 23.3.2007

Veranstaltungsort:
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/ABC2007/

Kurzbeschreibung: The Asian Bioethics Conference (ABC), organized by the Asian Bioethics Association, started with the initiative of Prof. Hakudai Sakamoto, who founded the Association in 1997 with the aim of promoting the study of bioethics in Asia as well as to emphasize the important role that bioethics in Asia plays in the global dialog on the topic. From its beginning in Japan, the Conference has been held in many countries in Asia, and the sixth one was held in Salifa, Turkey in November 2005. The seventh ABC will be held in conjunction with the Eighth World Congress of Bioethics in Beijing, China from August 6 to 9, 2006, and Chulalongkorn University has been honored by the Asian Bioethics Association to hold the eighth ABC in March 19 to 23, 2007.

The ABC has been an important focal point for scholars and professionals from a large variety of disciplines to meet and share their insights on a wide range of topics related to bioethics and to those disciplines that deal with science, society and culture. Although the title of the conference is Asian Bioethics this does not mean that those who participate in the conferences are only from Asia. The Conference has been global from its beginning, and a large number of participants came from many countries around the world.

The theme for the eighth ABC is "Biotechnology, Culture and Human Values in Asia and Beyond". The rapid advances in biotechnology, including biomedical technologies, have created a wide variety of ethical problems, many of which were not even conceivable only a few years ago. These advances, when interacting with the specific cultural contexts such as those in Asia and other regions, have also created a different, though related, set of problems, such as how one should regard one's own cultural tradition in relation to these advances and others. Hence there is an intricate web of relations among biotechnology, culture and human values that the Conference is dedicated to exploring. Moreover, this web of relations does not limit itself to Asia, but in today's closely interwoven world, Asia cannot stand alone or exclude itself; neither can the other regions of the world. Thus this is all the more rationale for increasing collaboration among the various cultures and regions of the world.

Kontakt: Dr. Soraj Hongladarom
Center for Ethics of Science and Technology
Faculty of Arts
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok 10330
Thailand
Tel.: +66 - (0)2 - 2 18 47 56
Fax: +66 - (0)2 - 2 18 47 55
hsoraj@chula.ac.th
http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/

Veranstalter: The Asian Bioethics Association, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, Regional Unit for Science and Human Science in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP), UNESCO Bangkok, National Health Foundation, Thailand, APEC Foresight, Thailand

Schlagworte: Biotechnologie, Genforschung/-technik, Gesundheitswesen, Humangenetik, Lebensverlängerung, Medizinische Ethik, Ökologische Ethik, Pharmazeutik