Just Health Care? 2004
The VI Annual Swedish Symposium on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society was held on May 24-25 2004 in Sandhamn.
Plenary session
Keynote lectures:
Parallel sessions
Monday May 24
Plenary session
Dan W. Brock Professor of Medical Ethics at the Harvard Medical School, Division of Medical Ethics, USA
Ethical issues in health care: resource prioritization and rationing
Suzanne Holland Associate Professor of Religious and Social Ethics at the University of Puget Sound, USA
Gender, justice & health: global issues Abstract : Lecture (pdf)
Eric Matthews Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Professor in Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Psychiatry, Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
An ethical crisis of aging? Abstract
Anna T. Höglund Assistant Professor of Ethics, Centre for Bioethics at Karolinska Institutet & Uppsala University (Now Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University)
Can we rely on ethical principles? Abstract
Elisabeth M. Russell Emeritus Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
The clinician's role in a resource-limited medical service?
Abstract : Handout (pdf)
Tuesday May 25
Parallel sessions
SESSION I: SETTING PRIORITIES - STRUCTURAL ASPECTS
Liss, Per Erik National Centre for Priority Setting, Sweden
The significance of the goal of health care for the setting of priorities Abstract (pdf)
Kihlbom, Ulrik Uppsala University, Sweden
Health care, justice and human flourishing Abstract (pdf)
Arrhenius, Gustaf Stockholm University, Sweden
Justice between generations and non-therapeutic research on children Abstract (pdf)
Galarneau, Charlene A. Tufts University, USA
Citizen participation in just Canadian health care
Abstract (pdf) Manuscript (pdf)
Ali Mohammad Matta International Islamic University, Malaysia
Erosion of the trust in the health care system Abstract (pdf) Paper (pdf)
Mohsen Al Attar Ahmed Stockholm University, Sweden
The human right to health Abstract (pdf)
Rauprich, Oliver & Dohrn, Daniel Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremburg, Germany
Rehabilitation in Germany: is it efficient, is it fair? Abstract (pdf)
Dohrn, Daniel & Rauprich, Oliver Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremburg, Germany
Utilitarianism and health economics Abstract (pdf)
Granqvist, Roland Högskolan i Dalarna, Sweden
Medical egalitarianism and patients' prior consent
Abstract (pdf) Paper (pdf)
SESSION II: PRIORITIES IN PRACTICE
Lebacqz, Karen Graduate Teological Union, USA
Justice in health care: five views from the clinic
Abstract (pdf) Handout (pdf)
Hespe-Jungesblut, Katharina & Dörries, Andrea Zentrum für Gesundheitsethik, Germany
Medical need in Hemophilia A Abstract (pdf)
Elmersjö, Carl-Åke Stockholm University & Helgesson, Gert Uppsala University, Sweden
Notions of just health care at three Swedish hospitals Abstract (pdf)
Hurst, Samia Geneva University Medical School, Switzerland Taking account of the outcomes of macro-level allocation decisions on ethics in clinical practice Abstract (pdf)
McDonald, Catherine LA Trobe University, Australia
Problems with distributive principles: the impossibility of health Abstract (pdf) Paper (pdf)
Foghammar, Gustav Stockholm Centre for Eating Disorders, Sweden
At the heart of the matter: Human rights imperative for public health. In the crossroads of fair and just health care
Abstract (pdf) Lecture (pdf)
Eyal, Nir National Institutes of Health, USA
Just health care and 'commodification' Abstract (pdf)
Björkman, Barbro Royal College of Technology, Sweden
Why are we not allowed to sell that which we are encouraged to donate? Abstract (pdf)
Ho, Dien University of Kentucky, USA
When good organs go to bad people Abstract (pdf)
More information:
Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics
Josepine Fernow, Co-ordinator, josepine.fernow@crb.uu.se
Associate Professor Anna T. Höglund, anna.hoglund@crb.uu.se
