Coordinator:

Darryl Macer, Ph.D., Hon.D.

Director, Eubios Ethics Institute, New Zealand, Japan and Thailand; President, American University of Sovereign Nations, USA  Email: darryl@eubios.info

www.eubios.info

Bioethics Education Network on-line

The website is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bioethicseducation

There is a related yahoo listerve network for students with 160 members: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bioethics_for_students

Next meeting: 9:00 AM Eastern time (New York time) in a Zoom meeting on 21 June 2020 during the 15th World Congress of Bioethics.  

Some resources are listed below, and also refer to the list of past conferences to explore many of the previous network meetings.

Establishment of cross-cultural Masters and Doctoral programs for Bioethics Education with International Faculty.

Goals: To promote the discussion, implementation and evaluation of bioethics at all levels, both through formal and non-formal education.

Membership: The International Bioethics Education Network has a functioning yahoo listserve with over 200 members, in addition to other members of the listserve, which is open to all. The network welcomes individuals with an interest in all approaches to promote the discussion of bioethics, both through formal and non-formal education. If your school or institution wishes to be linked on the site please send the name and details.         

The initial network was founded by Darryl Macer at Eubios Ethics Institute (www.eubios.info), in 1993, in Japan and New Zealand, with surveys and research on the extent of bioethics across the world.  It has been active since and a list of past meetings and links is below.

We welcome feedback. Some of the issues are controversial, but a balanced approach to these issues is needed, as education should prepare citizens for difficult moral dilemmas that they may face in their life. In recent times new approaches such as community engagement, use of museums exhibitions on bioethics, and other means to promote public discourse have been developed.

Projects:

There are community, school and university trials of methods for bioethics education in many countries.  Some of the products of this network have been the Cross Cultural Introduction to Bioethics, and other open access materials.

Members of this network have produced and shared teaching materials for bioethics education in different countries, for school and university classes. There are various types of classes the materials have been used in. Materials can be downloaded in a growing number of languages from www.eubios.info

Empirical research on the effectiveness of teaching bioethics at different ages and places is encouraged, and the results linked to policy. A regional bioethics education action plan was developed in Asia and the Pacific in collaboration with  UNESCO, while the coordinator was Dr. Darryl Macer, the then UNESCO Regional Adviser for Asia and the Pacific in 2006. However, this network is global.

There have been meetings of the network at various international conferences every year since 1992 (See list of Past Conferences). The 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 meetings were held during the IAB World Congress. The first coordinator of the IAB network was Professor George Agich, and that network was merged into the earlier Bioethics Education network of Eubios Ethics Institute. The 2014 meeting was held on the 25 June 2014 during the 12^th World Congress of Bioethics in Mexico, during a session of papers on the themes of the network. 

Selected Resources from the network

Takao Takahashi, Nader Ghotbi & Darryl R. J. Macer (Eds), 2019, Philosophy and Practice of Bioethics across and between Cultures.  Eubios Ethics Institute, 2019.

Melissa Baker, Mardi Grundy, Kimberly Junmookda, Darryl Macer, Lea Ivy Manzanero, Donna Reyes, Ngo Thi Tuyen, Alex Waller, 2019, Environmental Ethics Education. Eubios Ethics Institute, 2019.

Lara López Hernáez and Darryl R.J. Macer, Education, Happiness, Mindfulness and Colonization: Reflections from Time with San Carlos Apache Nation, Eubios Ethics Institute, 2018.

Bioethics is Love of Life: An alternative textbook on cross-cultural ethics. is a revised second edition 2015 version  that is also available to download as an iBook on Apple Store  (202Mb).  The first edition is available here: (English) / (Japanese) (1998)

Darryl R.J. Macer (Ed.). 2011. Asian-Arab Philosophical Dialogues on Culture of Peace and Human Dignity. Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok, 2011, 260 pp.

Darryl R.J. Macer and Souria Saad-Zoy (Editors). 2010. Asian-Arab Philosophical Dialogues on Globalization, Democracy and Human Rights. Bangkok, Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP), UNESCO Bangkok. v + 119 p.

Darryl R.J.Macer and Souria Saad-Zoy (Editors). 2010. Asian-Arab Philosophical Dialogues on War and Peace. Bangkok, Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP), UNESCO Bangkok. v + 119 p.

Darryl Macer, Moral Games for Teaching Bioethics (English), / (Japanese) UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa, 2008); cover page

Macer, Darryl R.J., ed., Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Bioethics Education (Bangkok: UNESCO, 2008).

Macer, Darryl R.J., ed., A Cross Cultural Introduction to Bioethics (Christchurch, Eubios Ethics Institute, 2006).

Macer, Darryl R.J., et al., eds, Bioethics for Informed Citizens Across Cultures (Christchurch, Eubios Ethics Institute, 2004).

Macer, Darryl R.J., ed., Challenges for Bioethics from Asia (Christchurch, Eubios Ethics Institute, 2004).

Macer, Darryl R.J., et al., eds, UNESCO, IUBS, Eubios Bioethics Dictionary ( Christchurch, Eubios Ethics Institute, 2002). On-line: biodict.htm

Macer, Darryl R.J., Bioethics is Love of Life: An Alternative Textbook; 162pp., ISBN 0-908897-13-8 (Christchurch: Eubios Ethics Institute, 1998).

D. Macer, Y. Asada, M. Tsuzuki, S. Akiyama, & N.Y. Macer, Bioethics in High Schools in Australia, Japan and New Zealand (English) / (Japanese) (Christchurch, N.Z.: Eubios Ethics Institute 1996).

Macer, D.R.J. Bioethics for the People by the People (Christchurch, N.Z.: Eubios Ethics Institute 1994).