Deutsches Referenzzentrum für Ethik in den Biowissenschaften (DRZE)

Titel: 26th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

Termin: 21.8.2012, 16:00 Uhr, bis 24.8.2012, 13:00 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort:
Max Stern Yezreel Valley College
Emek Yizrael, עמק יזרעאל
19300, Israel

Referenten: Prof. Ariela Lowenstein

Kurzbeschreibung: The focus of the conference is on ethical and philosophical issues related to “worst case bioethics”.

Ethical issues in providing healthcare during war, pandemics and disasters
• Health and human rights
• The mission of WHO in the prevention and control of pandemics
• Ethical dilemmas in triage
• The role of physicians in war

Risk assessment in public health
• Responsibilities of risk assessment agencies
• Ethics and the pharmaceutical industry
• Risk assessment for exposure to chemicals and nanomaterials
• The precautionary principle

Dealing with fatal conditions
• Truth-telling and cancer patients
• Palliative care and pain relief
• Strengths and shortcomings of advance directives
• Decisions about life sustainment treatments

Bioethics and international justice
• Setting priorities at an international scale
• Addressing the 10/90 gap
• Prevention of trafficking of human organs
• Benefit sharing in human research.

Bioethics and intergenerational justice
• The debate on liberal eugenics
• Is there a duty to preserve the human species?
• Problems associated with reproductive technologies
• Human cloning and germ-line interventions
• Synthetic biology

Kontakt: Dr. Frida Simonstein
Dept. of Health Systems Management
Yezreel Valley College
19300 Emek Yesreel, Israel

Tel.: + 972-4-6270 868
Fax: + 972-4-6270 946
fridas@yvc.ac.il
http://www.yvc.ac.il/en/7038.html

Veranstalter: European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH) and the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Nazareth, Israel

Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Prof. Bert Gordijn, bert.gordijn@dcu.ie

Schlagworte: Ärztliches Ethos, Biodiversität, Biotechnologie, Embryonale Stammzellen, Embryonenforschung, Ethik-Kodizes, Eugenik/Enhancement, Forschungsethik, Fortpflanzungsmedizin, Genforschung/-technik, Genomanalyse, Grüne Gentechnik, Hirntod, Humanexperiment, Humangenetik, In-vitro-Fertilisation, Klonierung, Medizinische Ethik, Naturphilosophie, Ökologische Ethik, Technikfolgenabschätzung, Xenotransplantation

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