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December 2021 EACME Newsletter
Contents
Editorial Caroline Brall
News from the EACME Bureau Ruth Horn
EACME Conference Keynote: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Bioethics of Care Marianna Gensabella Furnari
Should we trust robots with evolving functionality? Arianna Manzini, Helen Smith, Jonathan Ives
Design, development, and deployment of artificial muscles – some key ethical considerations Dr. Mari-Rose Kennedy, Prof. Richard Huxtable
Workshop Report: Research on the ought-is gap in medical ethics: Mapping the field through a European blended online-workshop Thibaud Haaser, Julia Inthorn, Katja Kuehlmeyer, Eva Kuhn, Sebastian Schleidgen
Workshop Report: Translational Bioethics Workshop “Translational Bioethics: A distinctive entity or emperor’s new clothes?” Jordan A. Parsons, Pam Cairns, Jonathan Ives
Book review: A propos de One Health and Planetary Health (Marie-Monique Robin) Jean Martin
New EACME Member: The Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies at the University of Lübeck (Germany) Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Christina Schües, Lisa Malich, Cornelius Borck
10th IAEE International Conference “Ethics Education and New Technologies: Cooperation or Conflict?”
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Editorial Board
Editorial
With pleasure, we present you the last edition of the EACME Newsletter for this year. With another wave of COVID-19 cases surging in Europe, additional ethical questions arise for governments to deal with: vaccine booster allocation and mandatory vaccination are central in this phase, fostering ethical discussions about distributive justice in resource allocation and proportionality of public health measures. The trade-off between individual autonomy vs. benefit of the society more becomes apparent once more in these days in public policy discussions worldwide.
In this edition of the EACME Newsletter, we will shift our attention – besides ongoing topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic – to digital health. Digital health was also the central topic of this year’s EACME Conference. Therefore, we begin with a summary of one of the keynotes of this year’s conference, in which Marianna Gensabella Furnari bridges the two topics and shares her thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic and the bioethics of care.
Furthermore, two ongoing projects in digital health at Bristol University are presented: one discusses whether we should trust robots with evolving functionality, the other examines the ethical issues of artificial muscles.
We were glad to see that EACME member centers were organising diverse workshops (either online, hybrid or in person) in the past year. For all those, who were not able to attend, we will present the reports of two workshops: The workshop “Research on the ought-is gap in medical ethics”, which was supported by the EACME collaboration prize as well as the workshop on “Translational bioethics: A distinctive entity or emperor’s new clothes?”. Jean Martin furthermore presents a book review on the topics of one health and planetary health. Lastly, we are delighted to welcome the new EACME member centre, The Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies at the University of Lübeck (Germany), on which you will find more information on page 27.
On behalf of the editorial board, we wish you a peaceful and merry holiday season and all the best for 2022.
Very best wishes, Caroline Brall
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