Imagining the Work of the Brain: Neuroethics, 2005

The VII Annual Swedish Symposium on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society was held on May 13-14 2005 in Sandhamn.

Keynote speakers

Patricia Smith Churchland
Thomas Dierks
Kathinka Evers
Judy Illes
Lars Lannfelt

Neuroethics is the distinct portion of bioethics that deals with our consciousness and sense of self: an interface between the empirical brain sciences, philosophy of mind, ethics and the social sciences. It is the study of the questions that arise when scientific findings about the brain are carried into medical practice, legal interpretations, health and social policy.

The conference “Imagining the work of the brain – neuroethics” is a cross-disciplinary event dedicated to making progress on a range of moral, social, and legal issues emerging from the brain sciences and related biotechnologies. A pioneering effort to discuss research on neuroethical issues, the conference will be blazing new trails. Although a number of conferences in biomedical ethics have been held in academic settings, none has so far been organized in Scandinavia that addresses the looming revolutionary impact of recent and future discoveries concerning the nature of the human brain. Moreover, none have taken the bold but essential step of linking an understanding of the nervous system and its evolutionary history to the nature of ethics itself.

Keynote speakers

Patricia Smith Churchland, President's Professor of Philosophy, University of California San Diego, USA - Brains, Decisions, and Responsibility
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Professor Thomas Dierks, MD, Department of Psychiatric Neurophysiology, University Hospital for Clinical Psychiatry, Waldau, Switzerland - Neuroimaging and Complex Behaviour
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Associate Professor Kathinka Evers, Centre for Bioethics at Karolinska Institutet & Uppsala University - Perspectives on Memory Manipulation: Helping the brain forget
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Professor Judy Illes, Stanford University, School of Medicine - Biomedical Ethics - Neuroethics Challenges at the Crossroads of Medical Imaging and Neuroscience
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Professor Lars Lannfelt , Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University - Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease - Ethical and clinical consequences
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More information and programme (pdf)

Arranged in collaboration with

 

 

 

The Vårdal Foundation for Health Care Sciences and Allergy Research - Ethics in Health Care Programme

More information:

Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics

Josepine Fernow, Co-ordinator, josepine.fernow@crb.uu.se
Associate Professor Kathinka Evers, kathinka.evers@crb.uu.se