European Information Network - Ethics in Medicine and Biotechnology
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| Date: | 23.04.2004, 09:00-17:00h |
| Location: | Imperial College London, South Kensington London United Kingdom |
| Keywords: | Embryo research - Gene therapy - Genetic research/engineering - Genetic testing/counselling - Genome analysis - Organ/tissue transplantation - Reproduction medicine/IVF |
| Details: | Introduction: As new methods for fertilisation and organ transplants are developed, society is forced to confront new and complex moral and legal dilemmas, and to evaluate critically established norms and values in relation to the human body, the family, and the definition of life and death. The ethics of live organ donation has recently received considerable media attention, as have developments and outcomes of fertility treatment and the new genetics. Both the medical profession and the government are addressing the issue of scarcity of kidney donors. Can an "ethical market" for human organs exist, or is this an oxymoron? Who owns the body, and how relevant is bodily integrity? What exactly do we mean by exploitation, commodification and coercion in this context? These and other salient questions will be addressed and discussed in this timely conference. CME Approval: Approved by the Royal College of Physicians for 6 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Conference Aims: The aim is to provide a variety of perspectives and the opportunity to explore and debate the key issues and principles relevant to these topics. It offers speakers and participants the opportunity to examine current medico-moral attitudes and practices, and to challenge assumptions and prejudices in this context. Who Should Attend: The conference is intended for medical, nursing and allied professionals, philosophers, ethicists, lawyers, teachers, students, administrators and all individuals who wish to explore and debate the key issues in this very important area of ethical discourse. The Health Care Ethics Forum This forum, formally know as Human Values in Healthcare forum, was founded by a distinguished group of doctors in the early eighties who were appalled at the subversion of professional values and the abrogation of human rights by doctors in Nazi Germany. Since that time the forum has broadened its membership to become a multidisciplinary group that includes social scientists, nurses, philosophers, educationalists and others. The forum is committed to exposing contemporary norms, policies, customs and prejudices that erode, distort, or neglect professional values and humanity in healthcare. It has addressed and debated a wide variety of issues and controversies with high level seminars, conferences, and publications - a few of these in collaboration with the Open Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. These have included: * Doctors as agents of the state: historical and contemporary examples * Medical education and the promotion of human values * A new millennium, a new Hippocratic oath? * Asylum seekers and illegal immigrants - professional values and legal boundaries * Human values in healthcare and British prisons * Humanitarian disaster relief: intrusion or moral imperative? * Patient confidentiality: an outmoded concept in the information age? * Immortality, biology and computers * Genetic population screening: problems and prospects * War, justice and public health |
| Organizer: | Imperial College , London , United Kingdom |
| Contact: | Address: Centre for Professional Development, 318 Sherfield Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom Tel: +44 - (0)20 - 75 94 68 82/84/86 Fax: +44 - (0)20 - 75 94 68 83 Email: cpd@imperial.ac.uk |
| Webpage: | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/cpd/bodyparts.htm |
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