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2010

Public Health - Ethical Issues
Conference in Reykjavik 30-31 August
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2009

Bioethics of Bioenergy
Conference in cooperation with The Finnish Parliament, Helsinki 17 November.
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Medical Tourism - Exploitation of vulnerable persons or a healthy supplement to the Nordic health care system?
Conference at Sigtuna, Sweden 11-12 May. Press here for more information.

Genetic Self Testing
Conference at Aarhus University, Denmark 14-15 January. Press here for more information.

2008

Chimera Research - ethical and legal aspects
In cooperation with The Danish Council of Ethics and The Danish Ethical Council for Animals,
Copenhagen 5 November.
Programme and recordings: http://www.etiskraad.dk/sw18843.asp?usepf=true

Teaching Material in Bioethics
A workshop with the purpose to identify excellent teaching material
Summary with links
Report on the project

Bioethics of the Sea II
In cooperation with The cooperation in Fisheries and Aquaculture the committee organized a seminar in Stockholm on bioethical issues concerning Nordic fisheries
Programme

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
Read the report.

2006

Business and Bioethics
Seminar in Malmö 15-16.10.2006
Programme
Read the report.

Informed consent - in whose interest?
Minisymposium 13.6.2006, Sandhamn
Programme

2005

Nordic Biolaw - Focus on Assisted Reproduction
A seminar at Hanaholmen in Finland 7.11.2005.
Programme

Bioethics of the Sea
Workshop in Bergen, Norway 1-3.9.2005
Programme

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)
Read the report (in Scandinavian)

2004

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

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Embryo Selection
 International conference 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

News

  • Publication: “Consumer Medicine”

    We present some of the viewpoints from the invited speakers at two of our conferences in 2009. The first was held on Genetic self-testing, and examined the development of genetic tests that are sold over the internet to consumers. The second conference was held on medical tourism. Both of these subjects touch upon a broader theme that we have called consumer medicine.

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    Public Health - Ethical Issues

    Conference in Reykjavik 30-31 August

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    The Bioethics of Bioenergy

    Conference in Helsinki 17 November 2009  INFO  

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