Ethics of Reproductive Technologies

Date: 11/16/2011, 09:00h to 11/18/2011, 17:00h

Location:
K.U.Leuven
Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law Kapucijnenvoer 35/3
3000 Leuven

University Hospital
Herestraat 49
3000 Leuven

Holy Spirit College
Louis Janssenszaal
Naamsestraat 40
3000 Leuven
Belgium

Speaker: Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Paul Devroey (Centre for Reproductive Medicine University Hospital Brussels)

Further information: http://med.kuleuven.be/Faculteit_Geneeskunde/english/borders...

Description: About 3 decades ago, the world was astonished by the birth of Louisa Brown, the first in vitro fertilisation baby. This was the beginning of an evolution that seems to have no limits: in vitro fertilisation, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, reprogenetics, cloning, stem cell research, sex selection, etc. These medical possibilities or promises, however, are not without ethical and social implications. In this course we focus at some of the most challenging issues in reproductive medicine. In the first part the students are introduced in the medical and technical possibilities, treatments and limits of the actual reproductive technologies. In the second part follows the ethical reflection on different specific topics. The final part consists of case studies.

Contact:
Chantal De Keersmaecker
K.U.Leuven
Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law
Kapucijnenvoer 35/3
box 7001
3000 Leuven
BELGIUM
Phone: 0032-16-336926
Fax: 0032-16-336952
Chantal.dekeersmaecker@med.kuleuven.be
http://www.kuleuven.be/cbmer/

Organizer: Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Program coordination: Prof. Dr. Kris Dierickx

Keywords: assisted reproduction; embryonic stem cells; research ethics; reproductive medicine; in-vitro-fertilisation; cloning; medical ethics; preimplantation genetic diagnosis