Th 9th Asian Bioethics Conference

By admin on November 6th, 2007

The Ninth Asian Bioethics Conference of the Asian Bioethics Association

Yogyakarta, Indonesia

3-7 November 2008

Bioethics in Asia: healthy and productive life in harmony with nature

Preliminary call for papers

Research findings, discussion papers, and other contributions dealing with topics in bioethics and related disciplines are welcomed. Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following themes:

- Asian Bioethics
- Bioethics Education
- Can virtues be taught?
- Cross-cultural Bioethics
- Islamic Bioethics
- Environmental Ethics
- Biomedical and Biosciences Ethics
- Ethical Issues in Disaster Research and Management
- Ethnic Conflicts and Peaceful Co-existence
- Ethical Issues in Biomedical Research
- Ethical Issues on Organ Transplantation
- Ethics and Intellectual Property
- Public Health Ethics
- Science and Society
- Technology and Culture
- Ethics of Emerging Technologies / Nanoethics
- Neuroethics

Preliminary deadline for receipt of abstracts for papers (200 words max)* and proposed sessions (with lists of speakers and titles) is 31 January 2008, to Email: nazif.amruhydari@yahoo.com, amru96@cbn.net.id
The specific objectives of the ABC9 are:

· to identify issues in the enforcement of law, rules and guidelines and other regulatory means of ‘good research practice’ of basic and applied researches leading to quality health care involving human subjects in accordance with the universally accepted bioethical norms; More