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Is Medical Ethics Really in the Best Interest of the Patient?
Medical Ethics Conference
14-16 June 2010, Uppsala, Sweden
Medical ethics is practised by doctors and nurses on an everyday basis. It is also a rapidly expanding academic discipline and ethical review boards for medical research play a key role in the life sciences. The primary concern is, or at least should be, the best interest of current and future patients. But is this really so?
This multi-disciplinary international conference will raise questions about some of the key ethical issues of concern regarding medical research. The possibility to increase knowledge about diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease is the primary motive of medical research. Ethics is there in order to protect patients and promote their interests. But is medical ethics instrumental to this end?
The conference discusses three themes:
- Should ideology be allowed to trump patient well-being?
- What is the role of informed consent in medical research?
- Ethical review boards: are they important ethical safeguards or over-burdensome and unnecessary bureaucracy?
Keynote speakers:
Tom L Beauchamp, Georgetown University, Washington
Anne Cambon-Thomsen, French National Center for Scientific Research, Toulouse
Alastair V. Campbell, National University of Singapore
Don Chalmers, Tasmania University
Hille Haker, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Søren Holm, Manchester University
Margit Sutrop, Tartu University
Marcel Verweij, Utrecht University
Simon Whitney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
The conferences is chaired by Mats G. Hansson and Ruth Chadwick
Organisers
The conference is arranged by Cesagen at the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff and the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University.
The Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics is an interfaculty centre at Uppsala University.
Cesagen is a collaborative research centre which is funded as part of the ESRC Genomics Network. The Centre is based at the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff.
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