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EACME Newsletter 56

  • 6 December 2020
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Contents

Editorials G. Birchley and C. Brall

News from the EACME Bureau R. Horn

Angelique Heijnen: 20 years EACME

Introduction of Kim Zandvliet

Cluj – Napoca EACME Conference 2021

Mutual Learning – a new Partnership between Bern and Cluj-Napoca M. Aluas and R. Porz

Users’ relatives’ presence during Covid-19 C. Perron and M. Martisella González

Tools for the ethical reflection on technology in old age K. Grüber

PhD Thesis H. Smith and L. Hartman

Call for Abstracts

Call for Papers

Advanced European Bioethics Course 2021

Vacancy

Deadline Next newsletter

Editorial Board

Editorial

As Ruth has mentioned in the “News from the Bureau”, much of Europe – and the world – remains in uncertain times due to the pandemic, although there is perhaps more hope in the air, with some of the 1701 candidate vaccines for COVID-19 now reaching late stages of trials. While this is heartening, the emergence of a vaccine will bring new, but familiar, ethical challenges not least securing the just distribution of vaccines to the poorest members of global society. Nor must we allow the hoped-for retreat of the pandemic in the wealthy nations to blind us to the fact that pandemics of this nature will become ever more likely given the population pressures linked to the enormous ecological emergency that confronts us.2 This emergency still lacks adequate redress, and its urgency – and its enormous ethical repercussions – becomes more apparent by the day.

In some ways, the global pandemic gives us a glimpse of both the best and the worst that humanity can achieve – the speed and energy with which science can confront and develop responses to the emergency is awe-inspiring. Problems of science denialism, short-termism, localism, rampant health commercialisation and inadequate and inequitable distribution are desperately disheartening. My hope is that attention to medical ethics can have some, small, effect on this blinkered approach, but it can only do so by being savvy to the wider socio-economic context in which healthcare takes place.

On this note, it occurs to me that the long-drawn-out process of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union sits at both ends of my stint as editor of EACME news. Now it is time for me also to make my exit, as editor at least. I will still remain an enthusiastic member of the EACME network, and I hope, as a contributor to the newsletter, only now my ramblings will come under some editorial control! On this last note, I introduce and commend your new editor, Caroline Brall.

Dr Giles Birchley

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

giles.birchley@bristol.ac.uk 

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