26th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

Date: 08/21/2012, 16:00h to 08/24/2012, 13:00h

Location:
Max Stern Yezreel Valley College
Emek Yizrael, עמק יזרעאל
19300, Israel

Speaker: Prof. Ariela Lowenstein

Description: The focus of the conference is on ethical and philosophical issues related to “worst case bioethics”.

Ethical issues in providing healthcare during war, pandemics and disasters • Health and human rights • The mission of WHO in the prevention and control of pandemics • Ethical dilemmas in triage • The role of physicians in war

Risk assessment in public health • Responsibilities of risk assessment agencies • Ethics and the pharmaceutical industry • Risk assessment for exposure to chemicals and nanomaterials • The precautionary principle

Dealing with fatal conditions • Truth-telling and cancer patients • Palliative care and pain relief • Strengths and shortcomings of advance directives • Decisions about life sustainment treatments

Bioethics and international justice • Setting priorities at an international scale • Addressing the 10/90 gap • Prevention of trafficking of human organs • Benefit sharing in human research.

Bioethics and intergenerational justice • The debate on liberal eugenics • Is there a duty to preserve the human species? • Problems associated with reproductive technologies • Human cloning and germ-line interventions • Synthetic biology

Contact:
Dr. Frida Simonstein
Dept. of Health Systems Management
Yezreel Valley College
19300 Emek Yesreel, Israel

Phone: + 972-4-6270 868
Fax: + 972-4-6270 946
fridas@yvc.ac.il
http://www.yvc.ac.il/en/7038.html

Organizer: European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH) and the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Nazareth, Israel

Program coordination: Prof. Bert Gordijn; bert.gordijn@dcu.ie

Keywords: medical ethos; Biodiversität; biotechnology; embryonic stem cells; embryo research; codes of ethics; eugenics/enhancement; research ethics; reproductive medicine; genetic research/technology; genome analysis; green genetic technology; brain death; human experiment; genetics; in-vitro-fertilisation; cloning; medical ethics; cosmology; ecological ethics; technology assessment; xenotransplantation