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The main topics of MedicReS World Congress are:

• Good Medical Research
• Clinical Trials, Translational Research, Epidemiological Studies, Animal Experiments.
• New methods about good planning, analyzing, reporting, reviewing and publishing will be discussed by the medical researchers: authors, reviewers, editors and publishers.

There will also be three international conferences on

• Good Biostatistical Practice
• Good Publication Practice
• Good Bioethical Practice

and international symposium Good Medical Research Tools for Pharmaceutical Industry will take place within the congress.

More information: http://www.ic2012.medicres.org/?

This symposium is organised by the Centre for Social Ethics & Policy at the University of Manchester, UK.

It is funded by the Wellcome Trust in conjunction with the University of Manchester’s Wellcome Trust Strategic Programme ‘The Human Body: Its Scope, Limits, and Future’.

Attendance is free. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. However, places are limited due to the venue size.

You must register for this event in advance by emailing: health-nudges@manchester.ac.uk with your name and affiliation.

This symposium will bring together philosophers, lawyers, economists, and social scientists and will focus on the use of nudges (and other ways of influencing) as policy measures for influencing the public’s health. The objectives of the meeting are to:

1. Explore recent research from the behavioural sciences which is being used to inform health-affecting public policy;
2. Examine ethical issues in relation to behaviour change; in particular, through the use of nudges; and
3. Discuss how these initiatives are being incorporated into health-affecting public policy and, further, whether they should be used in this way.

Speakers include:

• Mark D. White, Professor and Chair in Political Science, Economics and Philosophy, City University of New York
• Kyle Powys Whyte, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Michigan State University
• Liam Delaney, SIRE Professor of Economics, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics, University of Stirling
• Muireann Quigley, Lecturer in Bioethics, Centre for Social Ethics & Policy, University of Manchester
• Tom Walker, Lecturer in Ethics, Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University
• Jane Wilson, Independent researcher, Sydney
• Yashar Saghai, Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy, Georgetown University
• John Coggon, Research Fellow, Institute for Science, Ethics, & Innovation, University of Manchester
• James Wilson, Lecturer in Philosophy and Health, Centre for Philosophy, Justice, & Health, University College London
• Marianne Promberger, Research Fellow in Psychology, Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health, King’s College London
• Henriette Prast, Rabo Chair & Prof of Personal Financial Planning, Tilburg University

After lunch, PhD-students are offered the opportunity to practice job interviews with representatives of the agencies/companies that presented themselves during the morning session. There will be ample room for questions during this interview workshop, e.g. to further explore the role that ethical reflection plays in different practical domains. This is a unique opportunity to find out what life is like outside of academia and whether it may be suitable for you!

In the second part of the afternoon we will have a guided tour through the Dutch parliament (Tweede Kamer). The politicians Ruard Ganzevoort (GroenLinks) and Heleen Dupuis (VVD) will give us a lecture about their field of employment and the ethical problems politicians face at work, followed by a guided tour through the Dutch parliament.

For visiting the Dutch Parliament you are required to bring an ID or passport with you.

The full program of May 25th:

10:00-10:45h – Lecture of Frans Brom, Rathenau Institute
10:45-11:00h – Coffee Break
11:00-11:45h – Lecture of Alies Struijs, CEG
11:45-12:30h – Discussion
12:30-13:30h – Lunch
13:30-14:30h – Interview Exercises
15:00-16:30h – Visit at the Dutch Parliament (Tweede Kamer)

We invite all PhD students and friends of the OZSE to join our seminar. Participation is free, and lunch is included. Please write an e-mail to Judith Zijm (J.H.J.M.Zijm@uu.nl) for registration. Please register before May 7th, so that we can make all necessary practical arrangements.

In December, 2010, the European Court of Human Rights issued the first holding of a high human rights tribunal addressing the legal authority of birthing women as a human rights issue. In Ternovszky v. Hungary, the ECHR addressed the criminal prosecution of midwives in Hungary for supporting out-of-hospital births. The ECHR stated that the human right to privacy and therefore the right concerning the decision to become a parent includes the right of choosing the circumstances of becoming a parent. The Court is satisfied that the circumstances of giving birth incontestably form part of one’s private life for the purposes of this provision (…).”

Aim of the Conference

1. To discuss, debate, explore and clarify the practical implications of the European Court of Human Rights’ 2010 holding that women have a human right to choose the circumstances and location in which they give birth.
2. To convene stakeholders in the obstetric system of the Netherlands for meaningful dialogue about the legal status, efficacy, and future of birth options in this country.
3. To publish a collection of legal and scholarly materials on human rights in childbirth, authored by conference participants.

Conference Format
The conference will be held over two days. The first day will convene international multi-disciplinary experts able to unpack and explain the context and significance of the European Court of Human Right’s 2010 holding in Ternovszky v. Hungary. The second day will focus on the Dutch birth system, and the role of home and hospital birth in its past, present and future.

Each of the two days of the conference will consist of four panel discussions of 90 minutes to two hours each. Each panel will have several experts articulating a range of diverse perspectives and opinions on the subject for that panel’s discussion. The format of the panels will be structured to include audience participation throughout the conference.

The conference will convene an audience of up to 500 participants at the Hague University. The audience will consist of lawyers, ob/gyns, midwives, other medical professionals, doulas, students of all these professions, parents and consumer groups and interested parties from a wide range of other disciplines. For those who are unable to attend the conference in person, the conference will also be available by webinar.

For more information, contact conference@bynkershoek.eu or http://www.humanrightsinchildbirth.com/

The EFGCP Geriatric Medicine Working Party has developed together with various stakeholders from academia, industry and patients associations a draft proposal for guidance on medical research with and for older people.

The document provides recommendations on various ethical aspects of clinical trials performed in older people, and who may belong to a vulnerable patient population. This will contribute to the protection of all older people when they become vulnerable patients in clinical trials and a better inclusion rate of this population.

More information at the dedicated website.

Confirmed plenary speakers

• Joan Tronto, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota, Author of Moral Boundaries
• Ingunn Moser, Professor of Sociology and Dean in the Department of Nursing and Health Care, Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo. Joint editor of Care in Practice
• Marian Barnes, Professor of Social Policy, University of Brighton. Author of Caring and Social Justice

Care has been and remains a contested concept. The notion of ‘critical care’ reflects the way in which:

• Ethics of care scholars and practitioners have highlighted the critical place of care in ensuring survival, well-being and social justice.
• Care has been subject to critique for being oppressive, paternalistic and at odds with disabled people’s struggle for citizenship.
• Care is a political as well as personal issue.
• There are examples of what are nominally ‘care services’ being revealed to be anything but caring. Criticisms of what is called ‘care’ reveal the necessity for a critical analysis of how and why poor practice and abuse continues.

The pursuit of a positively critical approach to both the theory and practice of an ethic of care is timely. This conference is designed to stimulate and develop a growing body of scholarship and practice wisdom challenging the dominance of neo-liberal thinking that has relegated care values to a marginal position. It reflects enduring evidence of the importance of care in people’s everyday lives and in policy making.

The conference is designed to bring together those whose starting points may be very different, but who share an interest in developing work that can promote critical thinking about care.

More information: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/sass/research/conferences/critical-care.php

Nur, wenn es einer Einrichtung gelingt, transparente, definierte und öffentlich gemachte Verfahren zu etablieren, wie eine Problemstellung zu einer ethischen Frage werden kann und konkret behandelt wird, wird Ethik für eine Einrichtung wirklich bedeutsam. Ziel des Praxisseminars ist es, bewährte ethische Instrumente wie die »Ethische Fallberatung« oder eines »Ethikkomitees« zu prüfen, ob sie in der komplexen Organisation eines Krankenhauses oder Heims relevant sind. Welche Voraussetzungen sind nötig, damit Ethik nicht zu einem Feigenblatt verkommt, sondern einen positiven Beitrag für die Entwicklung einer Organisation leisten kann?
An der Erarbeitung einer ethischen Leitlinie wird aufgezeigt, wie es nachhaltig gelingen kann, ein ethisch relevantes Thema in der Organisation abzusichern.

Weitere informationen: http://www.kap-regensburg.de/Detail/F58-12.html

Zunehmende Kenntnisse über individuelle Unterschiede auf molekularer Ebene nähren die Hoffnung auf gezielte und effektive Behandlungsstrategien unter Vermeidung belastender Nebenwirkungen.

So begrüßenswert dies ist, so laut sind auch die Zweifel und Fragen:Nutzt die personalisierte Medizin dem Patienten und welche Pflichten bringt sie für Patient und Arzt mit sich?

• Kann in Zukunft jeder Patient die wirksamste Therapie erhalten?
• Bewirkt die personalisierte Medizin einen Wandel des Arzt-Patienten-Verhältnisses?
• Wie wird sich die personalisierte Medizin voraussichtlich auf die Gesundheitskosten auswirken? Wird das Solidarsystem der Krankenversicherung davon überfordert?
• Welche Herausforderungen ergeben sich für die pharmazeutische Forschung?

Mit seiner Jahrestagung möchte der Deutsche Ethikrat ethische und gesellschaftliche Fragen der personalisierten Medizin in den Blick nehmen und dabei den Patienten in den Mittelpunkt stellen. Drängende Fragen zukünftiger medizinischer Versorgung werden vor dem Hintergrund des derzeitigen Forschungsstandes mit Medizinern, Natur- und Geisteswissenschaftlern, Vertretern der Patienten und der Wirtschaft sowie mit der Öffentlichkeit diskutiert.

Weitere informationen: http://www.ethikrat.org/veranstaltungen/jahrestagungen/personalisierte-medizin

*Target Groups: *
Teachers and Educators in Medical Schools, Nursing Schools, Law Schools, Schools of Social Work, Faculties of Philosophy and Ethics, Professional Organizations, Governmental & Public Bodies.

*Bioethics Education: *
General, Objectives, Teaching Methodology, Levels of Teaching, Status of the Programs, Evaluation of Students, Study Resources, References & Material.

The Conference is organized by the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa), The Zefat Academic College, The International Center for Health, Law and Ethics, and is supported by the Israel National Commission for UNESCO. The Conference is sponsored by the World Medical Association (WMA).

Abstracts of approximately 250 words are invited for oral and poster presentations.

The deadline for abstract submission: April 15, 2012

For additional information: www.isas.co.il/bioethics2012

For registration please contact: seminars@isas.co.il

Or tel. +972-2-6520574, Fax +972-2-6520558