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EACME Newsletter 52

8 August 2019

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 […]

EACME Newsletter 51

1 April 2019

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.

EACME Newsletter 50

1 December 2018

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.

EACME Newsletter 49

1 August 2018

EACME Newsletter 48

1 April 2018

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.

EACME Newsletter 47

1 December 2017

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.

EACME Newsletter 46

1 August 2017

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.

EACME Newsletter 45

1 April 2017

Recent media coverage of biomedical engineers who have designed a synthetic yeast genome, resequencing the yeast DNA in the process to eliminate redundancy and reduce its size, has briefly brought to public attention a gamut of issues about the preparedness of scientific regulators for the pace of scientific advances.

EACME Newsletter 44

1 December 2016

I, Rouven, have now been the editor of our wonderful EACME newsletter for more than 8 years. 8 years! The time has come, to pass on this privilege to someone ‘new’. This is not easy for me. The EACME as a whole, and the newsletter in particular, are very important to me.

EACME Newsletter 43

1 August 2016

At this year’s EACME conference in Leuven coming September we celebrate "30 years of Bioethics in Europe." EACME hence exists for 30 years already. On the one hand, this is a long time. On the other hand, biomedical ethics is still a very young discipline – if it can be even called a distinct discipline.