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August 2011 EACME Newsletter
Contents
EDITORIAL R. Pegoraro and R. Porz
A PROPOS DE DOPAGE J. Martin
STUDENT CLINICAL ETHICS COMMITTEE AT KINGS’S COLLEGE LONDON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE C. Johnston
REPORT OF THE VISITING SCHOLARSHIP AT THE OXFORD FOUNDATION FOR ETHICS AND COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH CARE PRACTICE P. Tozzo
RECENSION: Emilio la Rosa. les vendeurs de maladies J. Martin
BOOK REVIEW
Care in Practice Mol A., I. Moser, J. Pols (eds.)
On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms E. Landeweer
RECENTLY PUBLISHED Semences de Vie
BIOETHICS BEYOND BORDERS
PH D POSITION Institute of Ethics, Dublin City University, Ireland
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Editorial
The last EACME Newsletter’s Editorial included some hopeful prospects and, in the complicated humanity vicissitudes, we endeavoured to gather positive news, “revealing values in our global world”. The car bomb that exploded in Oslo and above all, the slaughter of almost 80 young people that occurred in the island of Utoya, have deeply shaken our thoughts and our feelings, but not our Values and the hopes which stick up our pledge for the good, the justice, the peace, the care of the sick and for each sufferer. The ideological fanaticism, the pitiless and the lack of respect for human beings, a criminal rationality which has set up and carried out the slaughter, all that has caused terrible and unbelievable pain, which shocked families and communities. We find it hard to understand how a person or a group of people can be driven to commit similar gestures, how they can lose any sense of humanity. So we wonder how to head off all that, how to encourage a culture of life, behaviour of tolerance, a peaceful collaboration in exploring differences and the troubles which interest the individuals and the communities. It is even more necessary to cooperate together, we should interact among different traditions, cultures and religions, to clarify “the evil mystery” with a plenty of “humanity”, compassion and solidarity. It is the work in the field of biomedical ethics that should really shoulder a responsibility to promote this humanity, to point out the values and the ethical principles that from medicine and from healthcare should be enlarged to include the whole society. We would like to be close to our Norwegian Colleagues, first of all those who so kindly hosted us for the 2010 EACME Conference: we express our heartfelt sympathy to them and to their Country. We wish to be prepared with a spirit of confidence and hope for the EACME Conference that will be held in Istanbul on 15-17 of September, whose subject is “Bioethics from a cross-cultural perspective”. The subject is highly topical, and it will offer us the opportunity to meet each other and to discuss these perspectives, in a European context and also relating to other cultures and traditions, especially in the Mediterranean basin. The human rights language, the European biomedicine convention, the traditions of medical humanities, can offer stimulating topics for positive interaction in medical ethics and in social responsibility. Istanbul can be considered as a “bridge” between West and East, among races, cultures and religions, then it can help us to cultivate the bioethics inspiration as “bridge”, encounter and dialogue: to the future! We hope in ethical values and pledge, as method and style of our job, offering our humble and qualified service for common good especially for medicine and healthcare, to avoid that “heart weeps for mind’s egoism”.
Yours,
Renzo Pegoraro and Rouven Porz
(President and Editor/ General Secretary of EACME)
Renzo.pegoraro@fondazionelanza.it
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