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| Date: | 05.09.2008, 09:00h to 08.09.2008, 20:30h |
| Location: | Please see the Programm and Adresses of the Venues on the Conference Page. Rijeka and Opatija Kroatien |
| Keywords: | AIDS - Disability - Stem cell research - Ethics committees - Eugenics/Enhancement - Genetic testing/counselling - Genetic research/engineering - Genome analysis - Gene therapy - Health care system/Health policy - Neuroscience - Brain death - Human genetics - End of life - Medical ethics - Ecology - Organ/tissue transplantation - Palliative treatment - Intellectual property/Patenting - Nursing ethics - Psychiatry - Technology ethics - Animal ethics |
| Details: | THEMES: 1. Culture and bioethics - Bioethics and fundamentalism - Bioethics, universalism and cultural relativism - Bioethics education within and across cultures - Cultural versus global bioethics - Bioethics as cultural imperialism 2. Foundational issues and normative frameworks - Characteristics of humanness - Dignity and enhancement - Issues in valuing life: economic, ethical, legal, religious - Universalism and particularism in bioethics - Methodology in Bioethics - Patient`s rights and medical law 3. Difference and diversity in bioethics - Disability and bioethics - Feminist approaches to bioethics - Religion and bioethics - Gender and bioethics 4. Ethics of research, science, and biotechnology - Bioethical aspects of stem cell research, genetics and genomics - Emerging and converging technologies in biomedicine and health care - HIV prevention research - Protection of human subjects - Ethical treatment of animals - Neuroethics 5. Clinical ethics - Ethics consultation and ethics committees - Neuro-psychosurgery and neuropsychiatry - Death and dying - Transplantation and organ procurement - Palliative care - Inter-professional conflicts in patient care - Ethics of delivering health care in multi-cultural world 6. Ethical issues in public health - Ethical issues posed by infectuous diseases, e.g., AIDS, SARS and TB - Public health practice versus research with human subjects - Intellectual property rights and public health - Transplant tourism 7. Organizational and health care management ethics - Ethics of pay for performance arrangements - Ethical issues in managed care - Conflicts of interest - Access to medical services 8. Professional ethics - Conflicts between professional duties and duties to the state - Professional culture as a source for ethical standards - Health profession ethics 9. Crises and Bioethics - Bioethics in war and terror - Climate change as a bioethical issue - Ethics of emergencies and disasters - Ethics of Surveillance 10. Environmental ethics - Health effects of global warming - Ehthical issues in responding to environmental crises SATELITE THEMES: 1. Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) 2. 4th South-East European Bioethical Forum 3. Media and Bioethics 4. 4th International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation 5. Bioethics in Nursing 6. Ethics of Clinical Drug Trials |
| Organizer: | International Association of Bioethics University of Rijeka - School of Medicine Croatian society for clinical bioethics |
| Contact: | Address: Iva Sorta-Bilajac, MD, MSc 9th World Congress of Bioethics Secretary General Department of Social Sciences University of Rijeka School of Medicine B. Branchetta 22 51 000 Rijeka Croatia phone: +385 - 51 - 65 11 53 fax: +385 - 51 - 65 12 19 cell phone: +385 - 91 - 4 71 28 37 e-mail: iva.sorta@medri.hr Top Congress Management CDMC Mr Milan Cupic Ms Stela Cupic Hermana Dalmatina 4 52210 Rovinj Croatia phone: +385 - 52 - 84 00 77 fax: +385 - 52 - 84 00 79 e-mail: milan.cupic@istra.hr Tel: Fax: Email: |
| Webpage: | http://www.bioethics2008rijeka.info/ |
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