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December 2018 EACME Newsletter
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.
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Dr Giles Birchley
Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, U.K.
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