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News
Nordic
workshop on teaching material in bioethics – how to engage the
public
Programme
Brief report
Ethics and stem cell research in the
Nordic countries
The Nordic Committee on Bioethics was commissioned by NordForsk to prepare
an analytical study of ethical, legislative and social aspects on stem
cell research. For this purpose, a multidisciplinary working group of
committee members and external experts was appointed. It was chaired
by Dr. Ingileif Jónsdóttir from Iceland and secretaries
were Helena von Troil, Secretary of the Nordic Committee on Bioethics
and Dr. Jakob Elster, University of Oslo. The report was published at
the Nordic Council meeting in Oslo on 30.10.2007. Read the report:
Stem Cell Research
in the Nordic Countries - Science, Ethics, Public Debate and Law
The printed report can be ordered free of charge from www.nordforsk.org.
2007
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.
Programme
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
New Publications:
Assisted
Reproduction in the Nordic Countries - A comparative study of policies
and regulation
The regulation of assisted reproduction varies significantly between
the Nordic countries. The aim of this study by Dr. Riitta Burrell is
to identify and analyse the factors that account for this variation.
Legislation
on Biotechnology in the Nordic Countries - An overview
PGD
and Embryo Selection, Report from an Iinternational Conference on Preimplantation
Genetic Diagnosis and Embryo Selection
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