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.
101 Editorial - Welcome to Japan - Darryl Macer
This may be the shortest ever editorial,
due the size of the news section, which includes 3 months instead
of the usual 2 months. The delayed publication is partly due
to the birth of Ms. Manna Kalon Yasuhara Macer, in June, and research
visits to New Zealand. During this time my basic bioethics book,
called Bioethics is Love of Life, which is an alternative
textbook on cross-cultural ethics - has been published. That
theme will be taken up by a number of persons for comment in TRT4
(see pp. 103-4). In addition the English proceedings of ABC have
been published, called Bioethics in Asia. That
would also be good background for those coming to Japan to the
IAB4 Congress and TRT4/FAB2 satellites. The IAB4 second flyer
has just been released and is enclosed. Updates will be on the
www, already two more sessions have been added since last week!
105 Case 4: Therapy for a 48 year old alcoholic patient - Masashi Shirahama, and 8 commentators
111 Bioethics in the Former Yugoslavia: The War tragedy and Recent Trends in Croatia - Nenad Hlaca
113 Bioethics in times of Conflict: Commentary on Hlaca - Frank J. Leavitt
114 Eugenics and China: Where is the ethical problem?- Ole Döring
115 Ethical Aspects of Healthcare Reforms in Malaysia - Chan Chee Khoon
ISRAEL IN ASIAN BIOETHICS. 19-20 August, l998, Stern
Auditorium, Outpatients' Clinic Building, Soroka University Medical
Center, Beer Sheva, Israel. Topics of sessions: Cross-Cultural Bioethics
in Asia and Developing Countries (and what can we do to encourage ethical
community health in areas of poverty in the Third World?); Education for
Ethical Medicine and Nursing; Ethics and Philosophy of Psychiatry and
Psychology; Fertility and Genetic Technology in the next Century, Where
are the Limits?; Ethics at the Beginning and the End of Life; Violence in
the Family.
Information from: Yeruham Frank Leavitt, Ph.D., Chairman, The Centre for
Asian and International Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion
University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Tel:Int'l + 972-7-6400821,
Fax:Int'l + 972-7-6239396, email: yeruham@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Participants Wanted for Global Forum: Manipulation of Life
University of Pittsburgh School of Law Center for Medical Ethics:
http://www.law.pitt.edu/mdethics New addresses
Dr. Hono JOO
Mr. Shane Morris B. Sc.
Sunil K. Pandya
Prof.Dr.Dr.Joseph Schmucker-von-Koch
Alan Stockdale, Ph.D.
On May 11, 1998, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), launched a
website entitled "Global Forum: Manipulation of Life". This web page
serves as a place for the citizens of the world to discuss challenging
issues relating to life, death, health, and basic human values.
"Manipulation of Life" is a broad and profound issue which has a
potential of changing our concepts of the human processes of life and
death, aging or diseases. So far, NHK has produced and broadcasted many
TV and radio programs concerning issues such as "prenatal diagnosis",
"organ transplants", "euthanasia", and so forth.
Our Global Forum is not only designed to discuss various forms of life
manipulation as individual problems, but also to interdisciplinarily
discuss those matters for the purpose of introducing a new concept of
life for the 21st century.
In our home page, in order that many people may participate in the
discussion and the points at issue may be well defined, we have provided
actual cases ranging from birth to death and divided those actual cases
into the following four categories of inquiry:
Discussion A: Is manipulation of life permissible if one wishes?
Discussion B: How should we define illness, and to what extent should
we treat diseases?
Discussion C: Are we allowed to handle the human body as a commodity?
Discussion D: From what point of time in life to another should one be
considered a living person?
Although we begin with collecting opinions from the participants, we are
planning to add, at a later stage, a new theme that you may consider
necessary. After the selection, those opinions written in Japanese will
be translated into English, and those in English into Japanese, and will
be located at the appropriate site. Starting in May 1998, the
discussion will continue for one year until April 1999. We will cover
the process of this discussion and plan to broadcast a documentary
program on the NHK Broadcasting Satellite Channel 1 in November 1998 and
in June 1999.
We strongly believe that manipulation of life is a challenging issue to
be dealt with by global citizens including experts as well as lay
persons.
We will be waiting for your opinions.
NHK - Global Forum Project
Atsunori Kawamura
, Kenji Sato
Fax: +3-3468-8423
E-mail: nuclear-9@nep21.nhk-grp.co.jp
NEW BOOK Essays on Man - by Students of Biology - K.K. Verma and Rashmi Saxena.(Eubios Ethics Institute On-line publication
A book on Utopia is on-line at: http://www.erols.com/jonwill/.
On Corporal punishment, Teacher's conference, Teacher dismissals in Japan, see
Shoji Sugita home page; http://www.aba.ne.jp/~sugita/
Irish Biotechnology Information Centre: Http://www.ul.ie/biotech/
and their Health Law Certificate Program page
(http://www.law.pitt.edu/explore/clinheal.htm).
IAB Genetics & Bioethics Network:
126-1 Anam-dong 5 Ga, Sungbuk-gu
Medical Law Institute,
Korea University Medical School, Room# 5015
Seoul, 136-075, Korea
tel: 82-2-920-6130 fax: 82-2-923-7456
Email: joono999@unitel.co.kr
organ transplant, brain death, reproductive laws, etc.
Foundation Building,
University of Limerick,
Limerick,
Ireland.
Tel: + 353-61-202911
Fax: +353-61-202572
Email: Shane.Morris@ul.ie
Irish Biotechnology Information Centre Website: Http://www.ul.ie/biotech/
Biotechnology, bioethics, education, biotech-policy
Flat 11, 5th floor, Shanti Kutir
Marine Drive, Mumbai 400020, INDIA
Email: pandya.ilbom.ernet.in!sunil@ilbom.ernet.in
Interdisciplinary research group human sciences
Philosophy Department
University of Regensburg
D93040 Regensburg GERMANY
Email: joseph.schmucker-von-koch@psk.uni-regensburg.de
Biotechnology, neurosciences and their implications
for the concept of human dignity
Center for Applied Ethics and Professional Practice
Education Development Center
55 Chapel St., Newton, MA 02458-1060, USA.
Phone 617 618 2731
Fax: 617 969 1569
Web: http://www.edc.org/CAE/
genetics education for healthcare consumers and
medical professionals
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