The Asian Bioethics Association (ABA), Eubios Ethics Institute, IUBS, and the University of Tsukuba, welcome you to the:

Fifth Asian Bioethics Conference (ABC5)

Concurrent with the Ninth International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable (TRT9)

Draft Program (as of 11 December)

13-16 February, 2004
Tsukuba Science City, Japan
Submitted abstracts are welcome.

Download latest ABC5 draft program and Call for Papers (3.9Mb MSWord file).

Information and registration form.

13 February (Friday)

8:15-9:00 Registration
9:00-12:00 1. Bioethics and a Human Idea Map - Human Behaviourome Project
Darryl Macer (Eubios Ethics Institute, New Zealand/Japan) - Moving Forward with Ideas
John McLuth (California, USA) - Behavioral Foundations for the Behaviourome / Mind Mapping Project
Konstantin S. Khroutski (Novgorod State University after Yaroslav-the-Wise, Russia) - Objective And Subjective Approaches to Considering the Human Behaviourome Project
Masakazu Inaba & D. Macer (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan) - Application of Behaviourome Analysis to ideas about Biotechnology
Other speakers include...Lauren Springman (USA), Shinryo Shinagawa (Hirosaki, Japan) , Takashi Tsuchiya (Osaka, Japan) , Irina Pollard (Australia)

Lunch

13:00-18:00 UNU Bioethics Roundtable - 2. Access to Drugs, Genomics and Bioethics in Developing Countries
Mihaela Serbulea (Romania/Japan) - Bioethics and access to medicines in developing countries
V. Manickavel (Kathmandu University, Nepal) - Access to drugs and medical services in Nepal
Sahin Aksoy (Harran University, Turkey) - Access to drugs and medical services in Turkey: Asian and European
Frank J. Leavitt (Centre for Asian and International Bioethics, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Israel) - Health projects for Empowerment of Untouchables in India
Hasna Begum (Dhaka University, Bangladesh) - Bioethics should respond to human misery and environmental pollution: Global balance of power
Konstantin Khroutski (University of Novgorod the Great, Russia) - The Bioethics of Rational Pharmacotherapy in Russia: Objective & Subjective Problems and the Ways of their Solutions
Naoko Kakee (Japan) - Children's Rights in Clinical Trials
Yanguang Wang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) - Access to medical therapy and genomics in China
Abhik Gupta (Assam University, India) - Cultural Diversity-Biodiversity-Traditional Medicine Linkages in India: An Ecoethical Impact Analysis
Pinit Ratanakul (Mahidol University, Thailand) - Access to drugs & the HIV crisis in Thailand
Yuka Maruyama (GSK, Japan) - Genetics in Pharmaceutical industry
Nageen Ainuddin, (COMSTECH, Pakistan) - National Bioethics Committees in Muslim Countries
Jayapaul Azariah (President, All Indian Bioethics Association, India) - Reflections on rights of nature and humankind in public health decisions in developing countries

18:00-20:00 Reception

14 February (Saturday)

9:00-13:00 3. Medical Ethics
Noritoshi Tanida (Yamaguchi University, Japan) - "Medicine is Art of Perfect Virtue": Its Bright Side and Dark Side in Japan
Chandra Jeet Singh (Chitra Gupta College, India) - Neglected Bioethical Issues In The Management Of Human Mycoses Atsushi Asai et al. (Kyoto Univ,) - Patient Trust and Distrust in Japan
Zhao Shanming, Neng Changhua, Li Zhongli (China) - Analysis of Medical Practice Conditions on the principle of Informed Consent in China
Joshua Kalapati (India) - On involving a Christian College in AIDS Education and Mission
Xiao Wei (China) - Ethical Approaches to Public Health in China
Alireza Bagheri (Iran/Japan) - Comparative Study on Organ Transplantation Law in Asian Countries
Kenji Yuzawa (Univ.Tsukuba,Japan) - Current status of Organ Transplants in Japan
Maria K. Yasuoka (Hokkaido University, Japan) - Six Patterns of Grieving in Organ-Donating Decision Makers: Narratives from 5 donor families
Rosemarie Tong (Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, USA) - Title to come
Nancy Yanes-Hoffman (TheMedicalWriter, USA) - Title to come
Yasuko Shirai (NIMH, Japan) - The status of ethics committees in Japan
Hu Linying (China) - On The Tension of Autonomy and Justice: An Ethics Dilemma Raised by a case of IVF
Tassanee Tongprateep (Thailand)- Title to come
Noot Tipseankhum (Thailand)- Title to come
Koichiro Itai (Japan) - Title to come
Geoffrey Miller (Baylor College, USA) - Extreme Prematurity: Facts, Fiction and U.S. Law
Masahiro Morioka (Osaka Prefectural University, Japan) - Life Studies Approaches to Medical Ethics
14:00-18:00 4. Biotechnology and Genetics: Cross-Cultural Bioethics
Motomu Shimoda (Osaka University Medical School, Japan) - Two Major Trends of New Eugenics
Jennifer Robertson (University of Michigan, USA) - Eugenics, War & History:  Demystifying 'East Asian' Bioethics
Osamu Kanamori (Tokyo University, Japan) - Problems of new eugenics
Mi Jung Koo and Jae Sub Yang (Korea) - An Attempt to mediate the conflicts between the ethic of inevitability and the ethic of inseparability
Jim Ryan (UK) - International Comparisons of Biobanks
Minakshi Bhardwaj (University of Lancaster, UK) - Genetic databases: challenges to global ethical frameworks and opportunities for developing countries
 Yuko Mizugaki and Darryl Macer (Univ. Tsukuba) - Japanese Views on Genetic Engineering
So Young Park, Heesoon Choi, Suk Hee Lee, Young Hee Lee, Yang Hee Heo, Hea Jin Lee, Myoung Sook Lee, Young Hyun Jee - Korean Perspectives on abortion; euthanasia; and organ transplantation

Japanese tea ceremony led by Mrs. Udagawa, Teacher, Fuhaku School of Omotesenke (15:30-16:20) (15:30-16:30)
Norio Fujiki (Fukui Medical University, Japan) - Human genetics and ethics
Joan Costa-Font (LSE, UK) - Acceptance of unknown risks.  European perceptions of human cloning
Abbas Ali Soltani (Iran) - Human cloning in the view of Islam
Xu Zongliang (Shanghai Medical University, China) - Human Cloning
Ichiro Matsuda (Japan Society of Human Genetics, Japan) - HapMap project and CAG
Yoshihiro Okada & Darryl Macer (Univ. Tsukuba) - Bioethics, Industry and Genome-related Business
Makina Kato & Darryl Macer (Univ. Tsukuba) - How Japanese Companies Face Bioethics

18:00-20:00 Reception

15 February (Sunday)
Bioethics Education (First official meeting of the International Bioethics Education Network On this day translation between English and Japanese)
9:00-10:40 5. Basic theory & different methods of education
Darryl Macer (UNU, Japan) - Introduction to the project on Bioethics for Informed Choices
Lindsey Conner (Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand) - Methodology of Bioethics Education
Shinichi Shoji (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan) - Bioethics Teaching in Group Anthropology Classes
Leonardo de Castro (University of the Philippines; Secretary, International Association of Bioethics) - Reflections on Teaching Bioethics and Bioethics Education
Shunji Miura (Souka Nishi High School, Japan) - Bioethics Education and student conscience
Jeong-Ro Yoon (KAIST, Korea) - The ELSI program in Korea and education
Ole Doering (Bochum University, Germany) - Teaching medical ethics in different cultures

11:00-13:00 6. Teachers reports from different countries
Li Kuang (Middle School, Beijing Normal University, China) - Teaching about brain death
Naoki Shiraishi (Sumidagawa High School, Tokyo, Japan)Title to come
Shigeko Tsuboi (Kounosu Women's High School Japan) - Teaching about Surrogacy
Lei Li (Middle School, Beijing Normal University, China) - Teaching about animal rights
Dena Hsin-Chen Hsin (China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan) - Teaching about truth telling
Fu Jinhua (Middle School, Beijing Normal University, China) - Teaching about genetic privacy
Mika Asato (Naha International High School, Okinawa) - Video conferencing for bioethics education
Yuzuru Shatari (Kanazawa Nishikigaoka High School, Ishizawa) - Video conferencing for bioethics education
Miyako Tachibana (Tokyo International High School, Japan) -

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:30 7. Country coordinators reports from the International Bioethics Education Project
Japanese student group  - Bioethics play performance
Ester Abito (Ateneo de Manila High School, The Philippines) - Trials at Ateneo de Manila High School
Baoqi Su (PUMC, China) - Trials in Beijing
Jing Zhuo (Middle School, Beijing Normal University, China) - Trials in the Middle School Attached to Beijing Normal University
Bin Wang (Middle School, Beijing Normal University, China) - Alternative Courses in School Education for Life
Beryl Lee (China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan) - Taiwanese Trials
Irina Pollard (Australia) - Australian Bioethics Education
Fumi Maekawa (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan) - Japanese trials
Martha Marcela Rodriguez Alanis (Monterrey, Mexico) - Teaching bioethics and student motivation for life

16:45 -18:00 8. Improvement of teaching methods and styles, with comparison of teaching materials.
Hiroaki Koizumi (Kojimachi High School, Japan) - Teaching about Health and Disease
Ramesh Babu (India) - Bioethics and AIDS education
Jan Wawrzywak (Poland) - Syllabus of classes on Neonaturalistic Environmental Bioethics - A Polish Example
Toru Yamashita (Higashimurayama Hgh School, Japan) - Teaching about GM food in the context of the Japanese economy
Kyunghee Choi (Ewha Womans University, Korea) - Curriculum about ELSI and Biotechnology
T. Ishizuka and Eguchi (Shibagakuen, Japan) - Innovative Approaches to Teaching Bioethics in Ethics Classes
Joong-Ho Kim (Korea) - Bioethics Education in a Catholic University
Kaneo Inoue (Omiya Chou High School, Japan) - Bioethics Education and Information Ethics Education
Aruna Sivakami (India) - Bioethics Education in University of Madras & MGR Medical University

18:00-20:00 Reception

16 February (Monday)
9:00-11:30 9. Environmental Ethics & the Population Issue
Fumika Niwa & Darryl Macer (Japan) - Ethics in Japanese companies environmental policies
Mary Ann Chen Ng (the Philippines/Japan) - Ethics of Ecotourism
Kazu Watanabe (UNU, Japan) - Ethics in Agriculture and Agricultural Biotechnology
Hamideh Ofoghi (Iran) - Production of Recombinant proteins in Transgenic Plants: Biosafety Considerations
Farzana Panhwar (Pakistan) - The Role of Biotechnology from a Nutritional Point of View
Chandra Jeet Singh & A.K. Yadav (Chitra Gupta College, India) - Bioethical analysis of GM crops in India
Dipankar Saha (India) - Environmental Ethics in PGR Management: Eyeing Through Human Idea Mapping
V. Balambal (India) - Significance of Sacred Trees In India
D.S. Sheriff (India) - Ethics of male sexuality
Titles to come: Rick Weisburd (USA), Raj Kumar Siwakoti (Nepal), Mohammed Abul Kalam (Bangladesh), Milagros F. Neri (University of the Philippines)
Qasim Shah (Pakistan), Merry Osemwegie (Nigeria)
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-14:00 10. Ethics of Nanotechnology, Information technology Nicolas Delerue (France) - Ethics of High Energy Physics
Tsuyoshi Awaya (Okayama University, Japan) - Ethics of Nanotechnology
Jayapaul Azariah (India) - Information ethics & developing countries
14:00-17:30  11. Future Asian Bioethics and Practical Bioethics Projects
Renzong Qiu (President, Asian Bioethics Association, China) - Future of Asian Bioethics
Xiaomei Zhai (PUMC, China) - Title to come
Un-Jong Pak (South Korea) - Title to come
Zabra Govahi (Iran) - The woman's ethical status in Iran
Dr. Maria Fidelis Manalo (Far Eastern University, the Philippines) - Perspective from the Philippines
Xiao Wei (Tsinghua University, China) - Ethical Approach to Public Health in China Hyakudai Sakamoto (Japan (First President, Asian Bioethics Association, Japan) - Future of Asian Bioethics
Angeles T. Alora (San Thomas University, The Philippines) - Learning Bioethics in an Innovative Curriculum
R.N.Sharma (Pune, India) - Religions in Conundrum : Conflict or Co-existence
Sang-yong Song (South Korea (Vice President, Asian Bioethics Association, Korea) - Future of Asian Bioethics
Poster presentations

Pauli Ojala (Finland) - Epilogue: August 2001, The White House Paper and "the sins of the fathers"
Iwona Audrys (Poland) - Information ethics as related to monitored therapy
Oana Iftime (Romanai) - Gene therapy- a scientific and bioethic challenge
Nurten Aksoy (Turkey) - Title to come.
Hitomi Saeki (Human care Institute, Japan) - Student views of ethical issues about gaps between transplantation and poverty in Asia

To Eubios Ethics Institute