To Japanese home page

·       NEW - Cooperation with the UNESCO Ethics of Energy Technologies in Asia Pacific Project

·       NEW BOOK; Darryl Macer, Moral Games for Teaching Bioethics, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa, 2008) (pdf file, 1.8Mb); cover page (pdf file, 800kb);

·       Cooperative projects with the Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP), UNESCO Bangkok

·       Cooperation with the UNESCO Asia-Pacific School of Ethics

·       A Cross Cultural Introduction to Bioethics (2006 resource/textbook), and Multilingual teaching materials compiled under the UNESCO Bangkok Bioethics Education ProjectÊ

·       Download the Teaching guide, references, Internet links (regularly updated)

·       Bioethics education textbook project (in English)/ (details in Japanese)

·       International Bioethics Education textbook project list serve (yahoo groups all welcome)

·       Multilingual on-line resources for bioethics education

·       Bioethics Drama 1 movie: The responsbility of saving lives (8Mb)

·       Bioethics Drama 2 movie: My career, my life, my choice (17Mb)

·       Bioethics for students list serve (yahoo groups all welcome)

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Other research projects include:

·       Asian Bioethics Association list serve (yahoo groups all welcome)

·       Ethics of Energy Technologies in Asia and the Pacific Project

·       UNESCO International Bioethics Journal Club

·       Join the human behaviourome/mental map project

·       Behaviourome list serve (yahoo groups all welcome)

·       To UNESCO/IUBS/EUBIOS LIVING Bioethics Dictionary Edition 1.3 (1.7 Mb Word file)

·       To UNESCO/IUBS/EUBIOS LIVING Bioethics Dictionary Edition 1.3 (in html format with alphabetical search)

Publications

·       Eubios Declaration for International Bioethics (Open for signature from 1 March 2002)

·       To Updates on UNESCO/IUBS/EUBIOS Bioethics Dictionary

·       Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics (EJAIB)

·       To a chronological paper list of EJAIB

·       books (in English and Japanese)

·       Bioethics is Love of Life An alternative textbook on cross-cultural ethics / total Japanese translation

·       News in Biotechnology and Bioethics

·       Papers on bioethics by Darryl Macer

·       Bioethics teaching network in Japan (in Japanese)

·       Eubios Ethics Institute Newsletter (EEIN) (1990-1995)

·       Other WWW information links on bioethics

·       Conference list

Past conference abstracts (also see books)

·       TRT3 and JAB9 conference abstracts (English & Japanese)

·       TRT4 and FAB2 conference abstracts (1998)

·       IAB4 conference abstracts (1998)

·       TRT5 abstracts (1999)

·       TRT6 abstracts (2000)

·       TRT7 abstracts (2002)

·       TRT8 abstracts (2003)

·       Proceedings of the Fourth Asian Bioethics Conference are online (and also printed).

·       Conference - What are the Common Grounds: An American and Japanese Dialogue on Genetic Disease Linked to Racial and Ethnic Groups, Tokyo (8-9 May, 2003)

·       Proceedings of the Fifth Asian Bioethics Conference from Macer, DRJ., ed., Challenges for Bioethics from Asia (Eubios Ethics Institute, 2004)

Cooperating Associations

(See Information page for many more)

·       Asian Bioethics Association (ABA)

·       Asian Bioethics Association (ABA) membership list

·       Asian Bioethics Association list serve (yahoo groups all welcome)

·       IUBS Bioethics Program

·       International Association of Bioethics

·       All India Association of Bioethics (AIBA)

·       IAB Bioethics and Genetics Network

·       Mystical Bioethics Network

·       To UNESCO International Bioethics Committee

Selected declarations and documents

(see individual News pages for others).
(Associated with Eubios Ethics Institute)

·       Haplotype Mapping Project in Japan (in Japanese)/Hap Map Project (International site)

·       Haplotype Mapping Project in Japan IRB application form (in Japanese)/(in English, download as doc file)/>/(in English, supplementary document, doc file)/>/(in English, final IRB approval, doc file)

·       Coriell Repository CAG policy (Community Advisory Groups for HapMap)

·       Statement on Cloning (English) / (Japanese)

·       Statement on GMO Labeling Policy in Japan (English) / (Japanese)

·       Centre d'Etudes sur la Reconnaissance de la Personne Humaine / C.E.R.P.H. / Study Centre on the Recognition of Human Personhood

·       Global Summit of National Bioethics Commissions: Tokyo Communique

·       HUGO ELSI Committee - Statement on the Principled Conduct of Genetics Research (March 1996)

·       HUGO Ethics Committee Statement on DNA Sampling: Control and Access (March 1998)

·       HUGO Ethics Committee Statement on Cloning (March 1999)

·       HUGO Ethics Committee Statement on Benefit Sharing (April 2000)

·       HUGO Ethics Committee Statement on Gene Therapy Research (June 2001)

·       HUGO Ethics Committee Statement on Human Genomic Databases (December 2002)

·       HUGO Ethics Committee Statement on Human Stem Cells (November 2004) (pdf)

·       1997 Public opinion on biotechnology in New Zealand and Japan

·       2000 Public opinion on biotechnology in Japan

·       2003 Public opinion on biotechnology in Japan

United Nations Reports

·       UNESCO Universal Declaration On The Human Genome And Human Rights

·       UNESCO International Declaration on Human Genetic Data (16 October, 2003; pdf)

·       UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (19 October, 2005; pdf)

·       UNESCO Ethics Reports (Extensive list of reports and books on ethics from UNESCO)

·       FAO Ethics Series 1: Ethical issues in food and agricultureÊ (pdf)

·       FAO Ethics Series 2: Genetically modified organisms, consumers, food safety and the environment (pdf)

·       FAO Ethics Series 3: The ethics of sustainable agricultural intensification (pdf)

(Others)

·       World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki

·       Council of Europe Bioethics Convention

·       IAB London Declaration

·       Listing Of Selected International Declarations, Guidelines, etc. on Bioethics / Health Care Ethics / Human Rights Aspects Of Health

·       Selected Bibliography on Human Rights and Health

·       New - searchable Abstracts on assisted reproduction from Ken Daniels / Old list until 1996 is on this site.

·       Ethical Guidelines for Analytical Research on the Human Genome/Genes (Japan)

·       Fundamental Principles of Research on the Human Genome (Japan)

·       Japanese human cloning law

·       Journal of Chinese Medical Ethics - Some Abstracts

·       Medicine and Philosophy Journal (China) - Some Abstracts

·       United Nations University Bioethics Project on Identifying Priority Areas for Global Bioethics

The Eubios Ethics Institute was founded by Darryl Macer in 1990, in Christchurch, New Zealand and in Tsukuba Science City, Japan. In 2005 the main office moved to Thailand. Nobuko Macer is managing director. Darryl Macer is honorary director. He was an associate professor, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Science City, Japan from 1990-2005; and since 2002 has been an Affiliated Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies, United Nations University, Yokohama, Japan. Since November 2004 he has been acting as the Regional Advisor on Social and Human Sciences for Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO Bangkok Regional Office, 920 Sukhumvit Rd, Prakanong, Bangkok 10110, Thailand.

The Eubios Ethics Institute is a nonprofit group that aims to stimulate the international discussion of ethical issues, and how we may use technology in ways consistent with "good life" (eu-bios). It aims at an integrated and cross-cultural approach to bioethics, and at building up an international network.

In May 1995 this world wide web site was created to disseminate information, and since then more documents have been put on open access from this web site in English and Japanese. More files will be added. Please note - there are no pictures in these files, only text and data - to save costs of downloading.

Other activities and information

There have been a variety of networks on different topics in bioethics set up by members of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB). The membership of the genetics and bioethics network is open to those interested in research in the specific fields. One of these is a Genetics network, and a list of members of the Genetics Network is open for access. The news of the network is given in the EJAIB .

All the publications of Eubios Ethics Institute are registered in the National Library of New Zealand, and Japanese language ones are also registered in Japan.

The provision of the EJAIB, EEIN, high school teaching materials and books on this site should open the information to more people, and if you can receive the copy by Internet you may save the need for posting a hard copy. EJAIB is sent to countries across the world, which does include individuals in developing countries who are generally sent copies free (and often are also sent books free).

The subscription fees are in the journal information, and orders can be Emailed or posted to:
Prof. Darryl R.J. Macer, Ph.D.,
c/o RUSHSAP, UNESCO Bangkok,
920 Sukhumwit Road,
Prakanong, Bangkok
Thailand 10110
Tel: +662-3910682
Fax: +662-664-3772
Email: asianbioethics@yahoo.co.nz