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EACME Newsletter 50

  • 1 December 2018
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Contents

Editorial   G. Birchley

News from the EACME Bureau   R. Porz

Introduction to the European Clinical Ethics Network (ECEN)   B. Molewijk, A. Slowther and J. Schildmann

The Cambridge Consortium of Bioethics Education  Y. Isil Ulman and G. Widdershoven

Human Genome Editing: Possibilities and challenges for Africa   A. Cletus Tandoh

Short summary of the evaluation of EACME Amsterdam: Ethics in Action 2018   B. Molewijk

Clinical Ethics Consultation and Coercion:Analysis of Coercion in a Swiss University Hospital   E. Montaguti

New associate member CeSCoS Vienna   B. Prainsack

Book reviews  J. Martin and M. Gaille

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Editorial Board 

Seasonal Greetings

 

Editorial

 

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. Philosophically this view raises questions for medical ethics. How or should medical ethics hold the line against a scientific view of enlightenment? Should we defend a less rationalistic view of humanity, despite this being a place where superstition and ignorance might prevail (with all that entails)? Even if we take a more analytic approach to science, how far should ethicists check the hands of scientists lest their dreams create monsters? And how much are we compromised in our pursuit of these goals? Medical ethics itself is of course bound up with this desire to create and renew. It is in no small part due to a relentless pursuit of scientific growth that ethicists find a stable niche in universities and hospitals – indeed, the way funding is structured often compels career minded researchers to pursue the newest technologies on the block. So in some part our activities may involve making sure scientific progress is matched with similar progress in ethics. This is no small task, if indeed such a goal is even possible – good ethics is hard work, and despite our stable niche, there are not so very many of us.

This issue

Dr Giles Birchley

Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, U.K.

Giles.birchley@bristol.ac.uk 

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