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  • Thinking Ethics was a project launched in Geneva to foster the debate about ethics. A few friends, fed up with only reading about abuses in the media, decided to hold a forward-looking seminar on five subjects: ethics and performance, ethics and knowledge, ethics and consciousness, ethics and disobedience and ethics in real time. If moral has to do with right and wrong, then ethics is its application in society. We believe that people need to talk about the subject to determine the level of ethics they want. The book Thinking Ethics, a result of the seminar, is to start the discussion. This blog is a contribution to the conversation.
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  • Andrea Spencer-Cooke
  • Pascal Marmier
  • Kelly Richdale
  • Stephen Whittle
  • Steve Bowbrick
  • Beth Krasna

October 06, 2009

Bio-ethics blog

I love this blog! OK it is partially in French... but the blogroll and journal links are great if you are looking for references or resources. Samia calls it bio-ethics from the Swiss perspective - but don't let the size of the country fool you - it  is world class. Can be found here under forumethix-ch or in the blogroll.

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February 20, 2008

No good deed goes unpunished...

The chief of medecine at the World Health Organisation has criticized the Gates Foundation's influence on malaria research. In a memo to his boss, Dr. Arata Kochi claims there is so much money flowing in and that a lot of the projects are linked, so that it is stiffling independent review of the research.  Pre Gates Foundation involvement, annual budgets for malaria research were around 84 million $. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation poured in 1.3 billion. Well, yeah - they have a lot of influence. Full article in the New York Times here.

Posted by on February 20, 2008 at 06:15 AM in Medicine | | Comments (0)

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January 07, 2008

Medical ethics site

Fred sent in this link on BBC radio 4 with the comment "very authoritative and serious show devoted to medical ethics, and where one can download the radio programs for free. Link here.

The current posting is on testing a patient for aids without his consent.

Posted by on January 07, 2008 at 12:49 PM in Medicine | | Comments (0)

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December 19, 2005

Assisted Suicide

The university hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, has just announced that it will allow assisted suicide on its' premises as of January 1, 2006. The Swiss Medical Association and the National Committee on Ethics have both backed the university's stand. The difference between euthanasia and assisted suicide is that doctors do no directly administer the fatal dose of drugs, but give the patients the means to do it themselves. The university believes this respects the wishes and independence of patients. It will only  apply to patients who are incurably ill and of sound mind. This is the first time in Europe that a hospital will be providing assisted suicide. It is not against the law in Switzerland, but the other two organisations, EXIT and DIGNITAS in Zurich, are not in hospital environments.  more

Posted by on December 19, 2005 at 08:55 PM in Medicine | | Comments (0)