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| Date: | 14.06.2010 to 16.06.2010 |
| Location: | Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics
Uppsala University
PO box 564
751 22 Uppsala
Sweden Uppsala Schweden |
| Keywords: | Ethics committees - Research ethics - Research ethics committees - Health care system/Health policy - Medical ethics |
| Details: | Medical ethics is practised by doctors and nurses on an everyday basis. It is also a rapidly expanding academic discipline and ethical review boards for medical research play a key role in the life sciences. The primary concern is, or at least should be, the best interest of current and future patients. But is this really so? This multi-disciplinary international conference will raise questions about some of the key ethical issues of concern regarding medical research. The possibility to increase knowledge about diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease is the primary motive of medical research. Ethics is there in order to protect patients and promote their interests. But is medical ethics instrumental to this end? The conference discusses three themes: 1.What is the role of informed consent in medical research? 2.Ethical review boards: are they important ethical safeguards or over-burdensome and unnecessary bureaucracy? 3.Should ideology be allowed to trump patient well-being? |
| Organizer: | The conference is arranged by Cesagen at the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff and the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University. |
| Contact: | Address: Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics Uppsala University PO box 564 751 22 Uppsala Sweden Tel: +46 - 18 - 4 71 62 22 Fax: Email: crb@crb.uu.se |
| Webpage: | http://www.crb.uu.se/symposia/2010/index.html |
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