August 13, 2010
Valuing Lives: A Conference on Ethics in Health and the Environment The NYU Center for Bioethics New York University March 5, 2011 The NYU Center for Bioethics in conjunction with the NYU Environmental Studies Program will be hosting ‘Valuing Lives: … Read More
August 12, 2010
4th National Conference on Genomics and Public Health Using Genomic Information to Improve Health Now and in the Future Bethesda, Maryland December 8-10, 2010 The 4th National Conference on Genomics and Public Health: Using Genomic Information to Improve Health Now … Read More
August 12, 2010
Biomedical Microdevices (Volume 12, Number 4, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “What We Know and Don’t Know About the Bioeffects of Nanoparticles: Developing Experimental Approaches for Safety Assessment” by Mel E. Stratmeyer, Peter L. Goering, Victoria … Read More
August 12, 2010
NEJM (Volume 363, Number 2, July 8, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “The SGR for Physician Payment – An Indispensable Abomination” by H.J. Aaron. “Implementing Health Care Reform – Why Medicare Matters” by R.A. Berenson, 101-103. … Read More
August 6, 2010
Developing World Bioethics (Volume 10, Issue 2, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “The Future of Bioethics” by Udo Schüklenk, ii-iii. “Reproductive Tourism in Argentina: Clinic Accreditation and its Implications for Consumers, Health Professionals and Policy Makers” … Read More
August 6, 2010
NEJM (Volume 363, Number 3, July 15, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Facing the Wild West of Health Care Reform – Donal Berwick, Pioneer” by J.K. Iglehart. “Disclosing Industry Relationships – Toward an Improved Federal Research … Read More
August 5, 2010
8TH Annual Quandaries in Health Care Conference “A Need to Confess?: Writing About the Healthcare Experience†September 30 – October 2, 2010 The Given Institute of the University of Colorado Aspen, Colorado Quandaries in Health Care is an annual conference … Read More
August 5, 2010
Archives of Internal Medicine (Volume 170, Number 14, July 26, 2010) is now available by subscription only. “Racial Differences in Admissions to High-Quality Hospitals for Coronary Heart Disease” by Ioana Popescu, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, Mary S. Vaughan-Sarrazin, and Peter Cram, … Read More
August 5, 2010
JAMA (Volume 304, Number 4, July 28, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Reducing Diagnostic Error Through Medical Home-Based Primary Care Reform” by Hardeep Singh and Mark Graber, 463-464. “Medical Leadership in an Increasingly Complex World” by … Read More
July 26, 2010
Neurosociety… What is it with the brain these days? Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), and the European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN) Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK. 7-8 December, 2010 The last twenty years have seen … Read More
July 26, 2010
Second International Conference on Science in Society Carlos III University of Madrid Madrid, Spain 11 to 13 November 2010 This Conference will address disciplinary and interdisciplinary challenges in the sciences, and in particular the relationships of science to society. Key … Read More
July 23, 2010
8th Annual Quandaries in Health Care Conference “A Need to Confess?: Writing About the Healthcare Experience†September 30 – October 2, 2010 The Given Institute of the University of Colorado Aspen, Colorado Quandaries in Health Care is an annual conference … Read More
July 23, 2010
19th International Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Symposium Ethics of Invasive Brain Testing:Â Limits and Responsibilities Sunday October 3 Symposium Organizer – Paul Ford, PhD Clinicians and researchers are faced with ethically intricate challenges with the continued advancement of invasive technologies for … Read More
July 23, 2010
The Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, University of Witwatersrand (WITS) will be running a 3 day training workshop on Research Ethics “Conducting Research Responsibly” between 3-5 October 2010. The workshop is funded by an unrestricted educational grant from PFIZER. The … Read More
July 22, 2010
Reason, Theology, and the Genome: A Conference on the Ethics of Human Enhancement Christ Church, University of Oxford October 9, 2010 What is the place of theology in the growing debate over genetic engineering and human enhancement? Are theological reasons of … Read More
July 22, 2010
Humanities and Technology Association Annual Conference September 30-October 2, 2010 Bowie State University 14000 Jericho Road Park Bowie, Maryland This year our special topic is: Technology and Development: The Human Benefits and Burdens. The sustainable use of technical and natural … Read More
July 8, 2010
Second International Congress Of Bioethics “Morality, Spirituality and Creationism” 20-22 November, 2010 Location (venue details & address): National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Shahrak-e Pajoohesh, km 15, Tehran – Karaj Highway,Tehran, Iran Contact tel: +98 21 44580472 Contact … Read More
July 8, 2010
Cell Stem Cell (Volume 7, Issue 1, July 2, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Patient-Specific Pluripotent Stem Cells Become Even More Accessible” by Shinya Yamanaka, 1. “Tumor Oncogenotypes and Lung Cancer Stem Cell Identity” by James … Read More
July 2, 2010
Accounting for Health and Health Care: Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of Their Improvement by the Panel to Advance a Research Program on the Design of National Health Accounts and the National Research Council (The National Academies Press) … Read More
July 2, 2010
Journal of Academic Ethics (Volume 7, Number 4, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Patients as Teaching Tools: Merely Informed or True Consent” by Syed Mamun Mahmud and Aasim Ahmad, 255-260. “The New Biopolitics” by Jiangxia Yu … Read More
July 2, 2010
The Institute for Faith and Learning Baylor University 2010 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture “Human Dignity and the Future of Health Care†October 28-30, 2010 Waco, Texas Inspired by the conviction that a Christian understanding of the dignity of … Read More
July 1, 2010
In this paper, I focus on the concept of human dignity and critically assess whether such a concept, as used in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, is indeed a useful tool for bioethical debates. However, I consider … Read More
July 1, 2010
Since the first sex reassignment operations were performed, individual sex has come to be, to some extent at least, a technological artifact. The existence of sperm sorting technology, and of prenatal determination of fetal sex via ultrasound along with the … Read More
July 1, 2010
The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 10, Issue 7, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Disaster in the Gulf: Public Health and Public Responsibility” by Summer Johnson, 1-2. “Should Human Beings Have Sex? Sexual Dimorphism and Human … Read More
July 1, 2010
NEJM (Volume 362, Number 24, June 17, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Health Care Reform and Cost Control” by P.R. Orszag and E.J. Emanuel “The Reality of Drug Shortages – The Case of the Injectable Agent … Read More
