Event: Disaster Bioethics Symposium
March 8, 2011
Registration deadline is 11 March 2011
Flooding in Australia. Earthquake in Haiti. Indian Ocean Tsunami. Hurricane Katrina. Disasters generate healthcare needs. Providing for these needs requires research. A Symposium will be held April 4-5, 2011 at the Brocher Foundation to address ethical issues raised by disaster healthcare and disaster research. The symposium will bring together a distinguished group of speakers at the Foundation’s conference facility in Hermance, Switzerland, just outside Geneva. One of the aims of the Symposium is to produce a set of ethical principles that will be offered to guide future practice and discussion of disaster bioethics. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer
Registration is limited to 50 participants. For registration details and forms go to http://www.brocher.ch/pages/sympvenir.asp and scroll down to the details for Disaster Bioethics. The Registration Form and payment details must be submitted before 11 March 2011. The symposium is being organized by Dónal O’Mathúna, School of Nursing, Dublin City University, Ireland; Bert Gordijn, Institute of Ethics, Dublin City University; and Mike Clarke, UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford, UK. For details on the Symposium see http://www.brocher.ch/pages/sympvenir.aspwww.brocher.ch or contact Dónal O’Mathúna at [email protected]. The Symposium is funded by the Brocher Foundation and UK Porticus.
