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The Summer Academy 2015 will address a much controversial topic: ELSI in assisted Reproductive Technologies. The impact in social life, the dimension of the infertility problem, the challenges raised by new developments of ART, Donor related issues, homoparenting, public policy...

The meeting will focus on the Latin American region and bring together leading practitioners and representatives from ministries of health to discuss how childhood cancer can be integrated with national child health plans and stragies. Participants will also discuss ways...

This workshop will explore the social and ethical issues raised for the future of neuroscience by the Human Brain Project and the analogous projects being carried out in the US and some other countries. These ‘brain projects’ aim to radically...

In our genomic age, race is increasingly used to analyze genetic and other scientific data. Despite the ascendance of race-based medical research and biotechnologies, people of color in the United States and globally continue to bear the burden of health...

La procréation médicalement assistée, les greffes d’organes et de tissus, l’utilisation de dérivés des produits sanguins ou encore de banques de cellules souches et de gamètes sont aujourd’hui des pratiques largement répandues dans le monde.   Elles améliorent la santé...

1. Genomic and Clinical Data Research Possibilities Medical research using genomic and other health-related data offers great potential in developing understanding of human biology, health and disease, and in the development of therapies to alleviate suffering. A great deal of...

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.

A growing market for new digital technologies, including ‘wearable technology,’ smart phone apps, and other self-monitoring devices, is encouraging people to engage with feedback on their physiological and psychological functioning and to keep a record of their activity, including pulse...

Please note that due to a technical error, not all the participants and speakers are listed here. For a full list of speakers and participants please see “Abstracts” in the right-hand column.  Goal of the Workshop: Exploring whether and how the...

There has been a recent surge in the use of three-dimensional biomaterial printing (3D bioprinting) for a wide range of innovative experimental therapeutic applications ranging from orthopedic patient-specific transplants to custom-made biodegradable bronchial implants. With its potential to overcome the...

The aims of this workshop are   To discuss what kinds of conscientious objection are likely to be advanced by health professionals within the next decades, to develop criteria for determining the ethical acceptability of different kinds of conscientious objection...

Confirmed speakers: Angus Deaton (Princeton University, 2015 Nobel Laureate in Economics)—Keynote Joshua Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Till Bärnighaugen (Harvard University) Nancy Cartwright (Durham University) Tyler Cowen (George Mason University) Angus Dawson (Sydney University) Abdul Ghaffar (World Health Organization) Rebecca...

Katja Kuehlmeyer and Corinna Klingler Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, University of Munich Migrant physicians might struggle with different challenges when they start to work in German expectations of patients, colleagues or supervisors and value differences in the...

This workshop is expected to take place towards the end of a three-year research project, funded by the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research (2013-2016). This project entitled “Unraveling lessons learned from the A(H1N1) pandemic to the 2014 Ebola epidemic”...

Although the relevance and crucial importance of epidemiological studies to contemporary psychiatric research and practice are undeniable, they still raise fundamental problems that two transformative periods in psychiatric epidemiology have yet to resolve. The first period (1960-1980s) developed tools for...

During this workshop, we will discuss the ethical, legal and practical issues of conducting post-mortem genetic testing with the ultimate aim of drafting European recommendations. We will focus on the case of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young adults (less...

Building upon current debate about public engagement with emerging technologies, the workshop brings together ELSI and STS scholars to discuss issues related to public participation when dealing with ethical, social and public health issues of genome research and its clinical...