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Dialogue on Dignity, Disability, Discrimination and Diagnostics
A meeting to discuss the challenges and possibilities that developments in biotechnology and changes in cultural values may create for the disabled in contemporary Nordic society.
A meeting for invited participants 19-20.10.2007 in Reykjavik.
Programme

Bioethics or biopolitics?
Is bioethics being replaced by biopolitics or vice versa?
Seminar 11-12.6.2007, Hanaholmen, Esbo, Finland
The programme will be published in February.

Previous events

2006

Business and Bioethics
Seminar in Malmö 15-16.10.2006
Programmme and Speakers' presentations

Informed consent - in whose interest?
Minisymposium 13.6.2006, Sandhamn
Programme (pdf)
Presentations by Angus Dawson, Anne Gammelgaard, Eugenijus Gefenas

2005

Nordic Biolaw - Focus on Assisted Reproduction
A seminar at Hanaholmen in Finland 7.11.2005.
Read the programme (pdf)

Bioethics of the Sea
Workshop in Bergen, Norway 1-3.9.2005
Read the programme (pdf)

Towards Nordic Biopolitics?
A seminar on biotechnology and bioethics.
Arranged by the Nordic Council and the Nordic Committee on Bioethics
26.1.2005 in Copenhagen.
The programme (in Norwegian, pdf)
Read the report (in Scandinavian)

Bioprophecy - the future of ethics and biotechnology
Think tank for invited participants 25-26 November 2004 in Denmark.
Read the programme (pdf)


Towards Nordic Biopolitics?
A seminar on biotechnology and bioethics.
Arranged by the Nordic Council and the Nordic Committee on Bioethics
26.1.2005 in Copenhagen.
The programme (in Norwegian, pdf)
Read the report (in Scandinavian).

2004
Bioprophecy - the future of ethics and biotechnology
Think tank for invited participants 25-26 November 2004 in Denmark.

An international conference on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Embryo Selectiion in Reykjavik 28-29.5.2004

2003

Biomedical Research Ethics
A workshop for specialists in bio- and research ethics from the Nordic and Baltic countries in Finland 16-17.10.2003.

Teaching Bioethics
A Nordic workshop on how to best teach bioethics.

2001 Teaching Bioethics
2000 The ethical issues in human stem cell research
1999 Who owns our genes?
1998 Bioethics committees in the Nordic countries
1997 Biobanks
1996 Transgenic animals and xenotransplantation
1995 Gene therapy
1994 Predictive genetic testing
1993 Genetically modified organisms
1992 Patenting life?
1991 Risk, biotechnology and ethics