Titel: Biomedicine within the Limits of Human Existence - Biomedical Technology and Practice Reconsidered

Termin: 8.4.2005, 19:00 Uhr, bis 13.4.2005, 13:00 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort:
Hotel Conferentiecentrum Zonheuvell
Doorn, The Netherlands

Referenten: B. Baertschi (Geneva), G. Becker (Hong-Kong), D. Beyleveld (Sheffield), R. Braidotti (Utrecht), D. Callahan (New York), M. Düwell (Utrecht), O. Döring (Bochum), S. Graumann (Berlin), H. Haker (Harvard), L. Honnefelder (Bonn), A. Kahn (Paris), M. Korthals (Wageningen), S. McLean (Glasgow), D. Mieth (Tübingen), M. Mori (Turin), B. Musschenga (Amsterdam), C. Rehmann-Sutter (Basel), C. Romeo-Casabona (Bilbao), J. Scully (Basel), T. Shakespeare (Newcastle), C. Shalev (Tel Aviv), L. Siep (Münster), P. Tichtchenko (Moskow), T. van Willigenburg (Rotterdam), J.-P. Wils (Nijmegen)

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.esf.org/conferences/hc05175

Kurzbeschreibung: This conference is the second in the “Biomedicine within the limits of Human Existence” series. At the first meeting on “Bioethics – an Interdisciplinary Challenge and a Cultural Project” – which was held in September 2001 in Davos – a new perspective on bioethics was discussed around the concept of “finitude”: limits of human existence, limits of power and limits of knowledge. Bioethics is centrally concerned with these moral limits as they are dealing with, for example, the violation of basic moral values or the point at which biomedicine attempts to exceed prior limits of possibility. Limits do not only have to be seen as a burden, but being aware of limits can make life meaningful. What emerged to be important from that first conference was the need to evaluate different methodological approaches and to explore interdisciplinary possibilities.

Building on the results of the first conference, this second event will take up some of the basic notions that have become important in various fields within the life sciences, including the key notions of ‘life’ and ‘nature’. The concept of ‘contingency’ introduces several intriguing topics. At first sight, the life sciences seem to be focussed on reducing contingency. However, with more recent developments in the life sciences, the complexity of the biological processes has generated deeper insights into the contingency of nature and of human beings as a part of nature. Life, nature and contingency shall be discussed in the context of the new developments of the biomedicine in their social, philosophical and ethical importance.

The conference welcomes ethicists and strongly encourages the participation of researchers from the life sciences and medicine, sociologists, anthropologists and researchers of philosophy of law. Apart from plenary sessions with prominent speakers, there will also be parallel free paper sessions in which (young) researchers are kindly invited to participate.

No poster sessions are planned.

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Veranstalter: European Science Foundation

Schlagworte: Biotechnologie, Lebensbeginn, Lebensende, Lebensverlängerung, Medizinische Ethik