International Symposium - " Bioethics of Science and Technologies: Problems and Decisions" Ukraine, 9-10 Oct 2008
The Division of Ethics of Science and Technology
Sector for Social and Human Sciences
UNESCO
*International
Symposium – "Bioethics of Science and
Technologies:
Problems and
Decisions", Kyiv, Ukraine, 9-10 October 2008*
An International
Symposium on "Bioethics of Science and
Technologies:
Problems and
Decisions" will be held in Kyiv, Ukraine from 9-10
October
2008. This Symposium
is organized by the National Medical Academy of
Postgraduate
Education named after P.L. Shupyk (NMAPE), the
Ukrainian
Association on
Bioethics, the National Scientific Center for Medical
and
Biotechnical Research
of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, the
Ukrainian Association
on Psychiatry, and the All-Ukrainian Council for
patients' rights and
security.
Abstracts addressing
the following topics can be submitted:
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*Bioethics, science and technologies* (Philosophical
and
methodological foundations of bioethics; Science and technologies
as
preconditions of new ethics of life; Dual use technologies: dilemmas
and
decisions; Ethical principles and values of science, technologies
and
bioethics; Responsible conduct of research (ethical principles
of
scientist))
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*Bioethics and transformation of medicine's theory and practice*(Ethics
in traditional, nontraditional, alternative or
complementary
medicines; Biomedical ethics and biomedical law; Bioethics principles
and
valeological (health development) technologies; Bioethics and health
care
management)
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*Bioethics in context of innovations in psychology and
pedagogic*(Bioethics and outlook of modern man; Interdisciplinary
strategy in
bioethics education; Relationship between bioethics and psychology;
Methods
of
bioethics teaching)
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*Bioethical expertise as a social technology* (Humanitarian
and
bioethical expertises in civilian society; Methodological problems
of
ethical
expertise in biomedicine; Experience of ethics committees:
ethical
and
legal aspects; Bioethics in media and politics)
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*Ecological bioethics* (Ecocentrism versus biocentrism;
Ethical
principles and law in ecology; Technologies of environment's
protection;
Bioethics of landscapes)
Deadline for
abstracts submission is 1 June, 2008.
Deadline for
registration is 1 September, 2008.
For more information,
please contact:
Svitlana
Pustovit
Tel:
(38044)205-49-87, 433-06-28
Email: kvll@voliacable.com
Leonid
Mazur
Tel:
(38044)205-49-87
Email: k-gum2@nmapo.edu.ua
NSTF Exco Meeting & Year - End Lunch