Titel: German-Israeli Workshop for Young Scholars "Culture and Ethics of Biomedicine"

Termin: 30.11.2009 bis 6.12.2009

Veranstaltungsort:
Dept. for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
University Medical Center Göttingen
Humboldtallee 36
37073 Göttingen

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.egmed.uni-goettingen.de/egm/DT-IL-Winterworkshop-1-2-09.pdf

Kurzbeschreibung: We are happy to invite you to participate in the German-Israeli Workshop "The culture and ethics of biomedicine” in Göttingen, Germany from the 30th of November until the 6th of December 2009. The German-Israeli Workshop “The culture and Ethics of biomedicine” brings together about 20 young members of the German and Israeli research community in order to debate contemporary issues in bioethics, public health, science and medical studies, and medical anthropology and sociology. The main emphasis of this workshop is on providing structural and interdisciplinary support for young German and Israeli scholars, through a variety of working forms, including feedback seminars, team work, and lectures. The workshop aims to provide a supportive setting where doctoral students and young postdocs get skilled in the interdisciplinary research on various aspects of biomedicine, receive feedback for their research interests from international experts and meet young scholars and academics from 2/4
Germany and Israel, establishing valuable contacts for the future. The workshop also generates a clear picture of the international research landscape of the cultural and ethical aspects of biomedicine, its diversity of academic cultures, allowing young scholars to work on their own chosen topics in an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and supportive environment.

Topics and Aims:

The cross-cultural bioethical analysis which will take place in the workshop touches upon various fields of biomedicine and public health issues: Reproductive medicine & prenatal genetics; end of life decisions and advance directives; organ transplantation; predictive genetic tests and prevention, ageing and health care systems. These issues are interconnected by the social dynamics of decision-making with respect to the patients, the family, and social expectations as well as by ethical dilemmas of duty versus autonomy, cost-benefit concerns, and religious/liberal considerations. All issues are of important relevance for individual and clinical decision making in Germany and Israel. Each of the topics should be discussed in its ethical and cultural dimension. Keynote lectures by invited senior scholars from Israel and Germany will provide special input to the different areas of practice. Young scholars will deepen and elaborate on their own topics linked to the different biomedical areas in small interdisciplinary teams. The work should result in co-authored working papers which will be finally published in a webforum.

Kontakt: Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz
Dept. for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
University Medical Center Göttingen
Humboldtallee 36
37073 Göttingen
Tel.: +49 - (0)551 - 39 39 66
Fax: +49 - (0)551 - 39 95 54
silke.schicktanz@medizin.uni-goettingen.de
http://www.egm.med.uni-goettingen.de/

Veranstalter: Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany

Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz

Schlagworte: Assistierte Reproduktion, Fortpflanzungsmedizin, Genetische Tests/Beratung, Genforschung/-technik, Gesundheitswesen, Lebensende, Lebensverlängerung, Organ-/Gewebetransplantation, Pränataldiagnostik