Official Journal of the Asian Bioethics Association (ABA)
World Wide Web site: http://eubios.info/index.html
Topical list of News in Bioethics and Biotechnology
List is complete 1991 - January, 1998, in 31 topics. News from 1991-1993 are in the OLD news files, and from 1994 in the NEW files.
69 Editorial - Welcome to Japan - Darryl Macer
TRT3 and JAB9 conference abstracts are on-line.
4th International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable and FAB2, 31 Oct - 3 Nov, 1998, Tsukuba, Japan Preliminary Program
72-75 Professional and Personal Values of Nursing in Turkey - Nermin Ersoy
75-76 Biomedical Ethics & Mass Screening of the Newborn in Japan - Kaede Tomoeda, Ichiro Matsuda
76-79 Can Islamic Texts Help to Resolve the Problem of the Moral Status of the Prenate? - Sahin Aksoy
79-81 Assisted human reproduction in New Zealand: The contribution of ethics - Ken R. Daniels
83 Ethics in Embryology, Neonatology and Nursing Values: Commentaries - Frank J. Leavitt
83-84 The Children Born from Human Cloning - Jean Kitahara-Frisch
84-87 A Constructivist Approach to Intercultural Ethics - Richard Evanoff
87 Commentary on Evanoff - Masahiro Morioka
88-89 Have Martial Arts Got Anything To Do With Bioethics? - Frank J. Leavitt
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A Web Site useful for school and university students is that of the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute, Australia. It contains original articles, Access To School Kits On Various Bioethics Subjects, Advice On How To Write A Bioethics Essay, Bioethics News, etc. <www.bio-ethics.com>. Christians in Science on-line <http://www.cis.org.uk>
Indigenous Peoples Coalition Against Biopiracy, a coalition of indigenous peoples organizations working to protect our lands from genetic piracy, website <http://www.niec.net/ipcb>
Corrections to existing links: The new URL for the Genetics and Ethics Home Page at the Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia is: <http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/brynw/>
The link Genetics and Public Issues is NOT part of the NIH as cited, but a division of the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), a non profit bioinformatics company providing public access to data generated by the HGP in Santa Fe, New Mexico, funded largely by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). <http://ncgr.org/gpi/Index.html>
New addresses
Dr. Bagheri,
Research Director, Center of Medical Ethics ,
North Iranshahr Ave., Before Taleghni crossroad,
15836 Tehran, I.R.Iran
Email: bagheri@farabi.hbi.dmr.or.ir
Cloning, Brain Death
Reiner Banken M.D. M.Sc.
Direction de la santé publique
Régie régionale de la santé et des services
sociaux des Laurentides, 1000, rue Labelle, bureau 210
Saint-Jerome (Quebec), Canada J7Z 5N6
Tel ...1 514 436-5669, #2302 Fax ...1 514 436-1761
Email: reiner_banken@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
Public health ethics; informed consent and public health programs;
public health and social control, and genetic screening
Dr. Anne Cambon-Thomsen
INSERM CJF 94-06, Département d'épidémiologie,
économie de la santé et santé communautaire,
Faculté de médecine,
37 allées Jules Guesde, F-31073 Toulouse Cédex,
FRANCE
Tel : +33 (0)5 61 14 59 59 Fax : +33 (0)5 62 26 42 40
E-mail : Anne_Cambon@immgen.cnrs.fr
Genetics in population, ethics and decision in public health
Dr. Tom Crompton,
Rm. D1902, UNIDO ITPD/TS, Vienna International Centre,
PO Box 400, A-1400 Vienna, Austria.
Email: tcrompton@unido.org
Socio-economic impact of biotech. in the Third World.
Dr. A.Tahvili
Education Director, Center of Medical Ethics,
North Iranshahr Ave., Before Taleghanii Ave. crossroad,
15836 Tehran, I.R.Iran
Email: tahvili2@farabi.hbi.dmr.or.ir
Genetics, Doctor Patients Relationship