April 28, 2009
Sociology of Health & Illness (Volume 31, Issue 4, May 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Indeterminacy and technicality revisited: how medicine and nursing have responded to the evidence based movement” by Michael Traynor, 494-507. “‘Futureless persons’: shifting life … Read More
April 28, 2009
Launch of consultation on medical profiling and online medicine: the ethics of ‘personalised’ health care in a consumer age The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is holding a public consultation on the ethical issues raised by online healthcare, telemedicine and commercial … Read More
April 28, 2009
The Division of Ethics of Science and Technology Sector for Social and Human Sciences UNESCO UNESCO Ethics Teacher Training Course in Windhoek, Namibia (24-28 August 2009) One of the activities undertaken to disseminate information concerning the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, adopted … Read More
April 24, 2009
Call for Papers and Presentations: Biodigital lives: making, consuming and archiving the lives of technoscience: 14 July 2009, 9am – 5.30, Educational Development Building (EDB), University of Sussex, UK, Hosted by the Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics … Read More
April 24, 2009
JAMA (Volume 301, Number 16, April 22/29, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Continuity of Outpatient and Inpatient Care by Primary Care Physicians for Hospitalized Older Adults” by Gulshan Sharma, Kathlyn E. Fletcher, Dong Zhang, Yong-Fang Kuo, Jean L. … Read More
April 23, 2009
Our 3rd HEC Swap Shop (Hospital Ethics Committee) Burlington, VT May 1, 2009 Hampton Inn & Conference Center Colchester, VT A gathering of Hospital Ethics Committee members and Clinical ethics consultants to share interesting, surprising, and vexing cases. Registration Form … Read More
April 23, 2009
The Division of Ethics of Science and Technology Sector for Social and Human Sciences UNESCO International Conference on Bioethics and Human Rights, Baku, Azerbaijan (17-19 June 2009 On June 17-19, 2009 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and in the framework of the celebration of the … Read More
April 14, 2009
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (Volume 12, Number 2, May 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Human nature, medicine & health care” by Bert Gordijn and Wim Dekkers, 119. “Medical technologies and the life world: an introduction to the theme” by Fredrik … Read More
April 14, 2009
First Summer Institute on Public Health Genomics: Translating Genomics into Policy and Practice June 22-26, 2009 Seattle, Washington The Human Genome Project and other advances in genomics and related technologies are paving the way for a new era in the … Read More
April 13, 2009
JAMA (Volume 301, Number 14, April 8, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “A Single Mission for Academic Medicine: Improving Health” by Paul G. Ramsey and Edward D. Miller, 1475-1476. “Conflict of Interest, Disclosure, and Trial Reports” by Bruce M. … Read More
April 13, 2009
Clinical Ethics Summer Institute 2009 Theme: Ethics from Boardroom to Bedside July 13 – 16, 2009 Hamilton, Ontario Canada The Clinical Ethics Summer Institute for this year, CESI 2009, will focus on Ethics from Boardroom to Bedside. CESI’s mission is … Read More
April 13, 2009
Advancing Ethical Research Conference November 14-16th, 2009 Nashville, TN The 2009 Advancing Ethical Research Conference Scholarship Program assists those members of the research, academic, and medical communities who cannot attend the conference due to financial constraints. PRIM&R has developed four distinct scholarship … Read More
April 9, 2009
Biobank Summer School  July 1-5, 2009  Wellcome Trust Conference Center – Hinxton, Cambridge  Organized & Sponsored by: The Wellcome Trust & Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G) Selection of candidates to participate in the summer school will take place in April … Read More
April 9, 2009
European Summer University Health Law and Bioethics July 1st to 10th, 2009 Toulouse (France) and Namur (Belgium) TOULOUSE SESSION July 1 to 10th, 2009:Â A -YOUNG RESEARCHERS FORUM July 1st, 2009Â Researchers under 35 are invited to make an oral … Read More
April 9, 2009
End of Life Decisions: Ethics in clinical practice, research and policy XI Annual Swedish Symposium on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society Seglarhotellet, Sandhamn 8-9 June 2009 Death is the most personal and yet impersonal event in our lives. Death is necessarily … Read More
April 8, 2009
Bioethics (Volume 23, Issue 4, May 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Empirical Ethics: Who is the Don Quixote?” by Bert Molewijk and Lucy Frith, ii-iv. “Empirical Ethics and its Alleged Meta-Ethical Fallacies” by Rob De Vries and … Read More
April 8, 2009
NanoEthics (Volume 3, Number 1, April 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Nanotechnology, Contingency and Finitude” by Christopher Groves, 1-16. “Researching and Teaching the Ethics and Social Implications of Emerging Technologies in the Laboratory” by Joan McGregor and Jameson M. Wetmore, 17-30. … Read More
April 7, 2009
Cell Stem Cell (Volume 4, Issue 4, April 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Cardiovascular Regeneration: Pushing and Pulling on Progenitors” by Matthew L. Steinhauser and Richard T. Lee, 277. “Recreating Stem Cells: A Novel Entrance to the Fountain … Read More
April 7, 2009
JAMA (Volume 301, Number 13, April 1, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Association Between Hospital-Reported Leapfrog Safe Practices Scores and Inpatient Mortality” by Leslie P. Kernisan, Sei J. Lee, W. John Boscardin, C. Seth Landefeld, and R. Adams … Read More
April 6, 2009
The Manuel Velasco-Suárez Award in Bioethics The Manuel Velasco-Suárez Award in Bioethics was created in 2002 to stimulate young scholars in the development of their capacities for bioethical analysis. It is one of five awards presented by the Pan American … Read More
April 6, 2009
Curso Intensivo de Actualización de Postgrado Ética de la Investigación y Responsabilidad Social en Salud VI Auspiciado por la Cátedra UNESCO de Bioética de la Universidad de Buenos Aires DÃas y hora de realización: Martes de 18 a 21 Lugar: … Read More
April 2, 2009
Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 35, Number 4, April 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Is it ethical to deny genetic research participants individualised results?” by P Affleck, 209-213. “Autonomy, religion and clinical decisions: findings from a national … Read More
April 2, 2009
Smithsonian Science and Scholarship in Society Series The Caring that is Health: The Gift of Nursing and Nursing Research in American Society April 30, 2009 National Museum of American History American healthcare is taking a quantum leap into the future. … Read More
March 31, 2009
The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 9, Issue 4, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Organizational Needs Versus Ethics Committee Practice” by David Magnus, 1-2. “Screening in the Dark: Ethical Considerations of Providing Screening Tests to Individuals When Evidence … Read More
March 31, 2009
Nanotoxicology (Volume 3, Issue 1, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Nanomaterials: A challenge for toxicologists” by Alok Dhawan, Vyom Sharma, and Devendra Parmar, 1-8. “Emerging trends of nanoparticles application in food technology: Safety paradigms” by Mukul Das, Neha Saxena, … Read More
