Annual Swedish Symposia on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society
After eleven years, our annual symposia series has been replaced by a conference series run together with Cesagen. The first conference was held in Uppsala in June 2010 entitled "Is medical ethics really in the best interest of the patient".
We are looking forward to the next conference that will be held in Cardiff in 2013.
Annual Swedish Symposia on Biomedicine, Ethics & Society:
- End of Life Decisions: Ethiics in Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy (2009)
- Dual Uses of Biomedicine: Whose responsibility (2008)
- Searching for the Animal of Animal Ethics (2007)
- Rethinking Informed Consent: The limits of autonomy (2006)
- Imagining the Work of the Brain: Neuroethics (2005)
- Just Health Care? (2004)
- Ethics at the Beginning of Life (2003)
- Genetics and Human Behaviour (2002)
- Medical Ethics (Vilken nytta har patienten, doktorn och
sjuksköterskan av den medicinska etiken?) (2001)
- The Philosophy of Linguistic Behaviour and the Psychology of Genetic Testing (2000)
- At the Intersection of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology (1999)
X Anniversary 2008
The ethical dilemmas that researchers and clinicians face in their work provide the basis for multi-disciplinary networks that brings results that are relevant in practice. The annual multi-disciplinary symposia series on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society has gathered researchers from various disciplines to discuss topics ranging from the philosophy of language through bedside medical ethics and nursing ethics, behaviour and genetics, the beginning of life and priorities to the ethics of neuroscience, the limits of autonomy, what constitutes an animal and who is responsible for dual uses of biomedicine.
This series springs from a meeting on Utö in 1999 when a group of researchers from various disciplines met to discuss the profile for a research programme in biomedical ethics that was established at Uppsala University in August 1998. This group now constitutes a multi-disciplinary interfaculty Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University that also includes Medical Law. We belong to a Network for Research Ethics & Bioethics together with Karolinska Institutet and the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences.
One of the ideas has been to allow young researchers to participate at a reasonable cost. We wish to thank the foundations and organizations that have supported this series of meetings and allowed us to invite international keynote speakers, keep the registration fees reasonable and more importantly, allowed us to offer reduced fees for PhD students.
We look forward to another ten years of interesting meetings with researchers and practitioners in various fields and academic disciplines. In 2009, the symposium will deal with End of Life Decisions: Ethics in clinical practice, research, and policy.
We appreciate that you are willing to travel to the end of the archipelago to discuss biomedicine, ethics and society! We hope to see you again. Finally, a special thanks you to those who return year after year to contribute to discussions. You provide continuity and truly make this a series of symposia.
Mats G. Hansson
Director, Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics
