Roma in Rome: Healthcare and Citizenship Alunni Lorenzo – Post-doc Researcher – IRIS-EHESS Impact Ethics Baylis Francoise – Professor and Canada Research Chair – Dalhousie University Ethical and Anthropological Issues in the Neuroprosthesis innovation Cartolovni Anto – PhD Student –...
The pharmaceutical life cycle is underpinned by a notion of mutual benefit. Participation in clinical trials is justified by the greater good, namely developing medicines to address society’s most pressing medical needs. In other words, drug development briefly equals drug...
It is a truism that some diseases are more visible than others in policy and media circles; the complex reasons underpinning this situation are less well known. Munificently funded eradication programmes, such as the one currently ranged against polio, ensure...
All health care systems are facing increasing demands within limited resources. Most countries are introducing systems to assess “value for money” that offer approaches to prioritising health services that seek to gain legitimacy with those on whose behalf they function....
This project is meant to gather international and national experts to reflect on the legal and ethical issues that are associated to the reporting of patient safety incidents and provide suggestions for global action. Safety has emerged as an issue...
When conducted according to ethical, legal, and scientific standards, clinical research minimizes risks to research participants, respects informed decision-making by prospective study subjects, complies with norms governing privacy and confidentiality of personal information, and responsibly addresses conflicts-of-interest. Of course, clinical...
The subject of the workshop is the discussion and understanding of epidemiological biobanking and databasing practices as a societal issue. The workshop would focus on the dimension of communication through the exploration of novel formats of collaboration between academic and...
The phenomenon of ‘stem cell tourism,’ in which patients travel to foreign countries to undergo supposed stem cell-based treatments in unregulated settings has been recognized as a problem for years. More recently, however, companies marketing such stem cell products of...
The purpose of this workshop is to provide an overview of current research on the genetic basis of human cognition and psychiatric diseases based on genome-scale and population-wide analyses and to discuss the medical and societal implications of this research...
This workshop will explore the ethical, legal, social, economic, and practical implications of the international expansion of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) with a particular emphasis on non-Western and developing nations.