Is Medical Ethics Really in the Best Interest of the Patient?
Event: ConferenceDate: 14 Jun 2010 00:00
Start date: 14 Jun 2010 00:00
End date: 16 Jun 2010 00:00
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This conference is arranged by the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University and Cesagen in collaboration with Akademiska (Uppsala University Hospital).
Main sponsor: Journal of Internal Medicine
Venue: Uppsala Konsert & Kongress (Uppsala Concert and Congress Hall)
CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN - Deadline 15th February 2010
Medical ethics is practised by doctors and nurses on an everyday basis. It is also a rapidly expanding academic discipline and ethical review boards for medical research play a key role in the life sciences. The primary concern is, or at least should be, the best interest of current and future patients. But is this really so?
This multi-disciplinary international conference will raise questions about some of the key ethical issues of concern regarding medical research. The possibility to increase knowledge about diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease is the primary motive of medical research. Ethics is there in order to protect patients and promote their interests. But is medical ethics instrumental to this end?
The conference discusses three themes:
- Should ideology be allowed to trump patient well-being?
- What is the role of informed consent in medical research?
- Ethical review boards: are they important ethical safeguards or over-burdensome and unnecessary bureaucracy?
Keynote speakers:
Tom L Beauchamp, Georgetown University, Washington
Anne Cambon-Thomsen, French National Center for Scientific Research, Toulouse
Alastair V. Campbell, National University of Singapore
Don Chalmers, Tasmania University
Hille Haker, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Søren Holm, Manchester University
Margit Sutrop, Tartu University
Marcel Verweij, Utrecht University
Simon Whitney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
The conference is chaired by Mats G. Hansson and Ruth Chadwick
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