It is with great pleasure I present to you the August edition of the EACME newsletter. Within its pages you will find the usual collection of book reviews, reports and articles, but in this special issue the editor and bureau have chosen to have a special focus on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Download the full Contents Editorial G. Birchley News from the EACME Bureau R. Horn Statement on European Solidarity and the Protection of Fundamental Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies Young Medical Ethics Network A Forum of the German Academy of Ethics in […]
Download the full Contents Editorial G. Birchley News from the EACME Bureau R. Horn Recap of EACME 2019 annual conference L. Savic and P. Young A letter about some ethical challenges in the arts and culture E. de Wachter The ethical implications of improvement science research and practice: […]
Download the full Contents Editorial 1 G. Birchley News from the EACME Bureau R. Horn EACME CONFERENCE 2019 M. Parker and R. Horn Professional Ethics at the end of Life International Workshop for Young Scholars, M. French and A-H Seidlein The Path to fostering good science The Embassy of Good […]
In this month’s newsletter we consider the ethics of new technologies and climate activism, in the form of two excellent articles by, respectively, Johanna Hovemann and colleagues and by our stalwart contributor Dr. Jean Martin.
TS Eliot’s poem East Coker is interpreted by many as an imprecation to reduce societal obsessions with the pursuit of scientific progress and to instead follow simpler, more diurnal lives of spirituality and contemplation.
Bioethics is often perceived as bridging the controversies dividing partisan positions, by clarifying objections and establishing common ground. Yet even the existence of an area of study called ‘bioethics’ can engender controversy.
The publication of the revised Declaration of Geneva on 20th November 2017 shows that ethics ostensibly remain central to the practice of medicine. Notable changes included the inclusion, for the first time, of a reference to respecting patient autonomy.
The recent legal case of a child whose parents sought innovative treatment for his serious genetic disorder, Charlie Gard, has meant that medical ethics led the news in the United Kingdom for a number of weeks.