Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics (EJAIB) Vol 10 (5) Sept 2000


ISSN 1173-2571, Copyright 2000 (All rights reserved, for commercial reproductions but access open for personal use).
Eubios Ethics Institute 31 Colwyn Street, Christchurch 8005, New Zealand
P.O. Box 125, Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305-8799, Japan

Official Journal of the Asian Bioethics Association (ABA)

World Wide Web site: http://eubios.info/index.html


pp. 159-167Go to EJAIB Sept 2000 News

6th International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable (TRT6), 27-29 October, 2000
Bioethics, Health and Environment conferences in Tokyo, Fukui until 3 Nov. 2000 (Second announcement)

Topical list of News in Bioethics and Biotechnology
List is complete 1991 - Sept. 2000 in over 30 topics. News from 1991-1993 are in the OLD news files, and from 1994 in the NEW files.


Page, and titles of papers

141 Editorial: The Eubios CD is here - Darryl Macer

142-147 Expectations of biotech of Japanese high school students in 1998 - Hiromitsu Komatsu & Darryl Macer

148 Commentary on Komatsu and Macer - Masahiro Morioka

148-151 Influence of Truth Disclosure on Quality of Life in Cancer Patients - Raghwesh Ranjan and K.K. Dua

151-152 Indian people can emotionally stand the truth of cancer, a commentary on the study by Ranjan and Dua - Noritoshi Tanida

152-154 Can Euthanasia be part of "Good-Doctoring?' - Sahin Aksoy

154-7 The UNESCO Declaration as a tool to bring together the Biology and the Law departments at the Univ. Cergy-Pontoise - F. Hardy, C. Bourdon and G. Kutukdjian

157-8 Commentary on Hardy, Bourdon & Kutukdjian -Yeruham Frank Leavitt


IAB Genetics & Bioethics Network: On-line

The complete address list is updated on the Internet. Send all changes to Darryl Macer. Membership of the network is not restricted to members of IAB, but open to all. Those persons who are not paying subscription to EJAIB, or granted a waiver, however, will not receive EJAIB, the official journal of the IAB Genetics Network.

Prof. Dr. Miguel Angel Ciuro Caldani
(Professor of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario;
Researcher of the CONICET -
San Lorenzo 1155 8¼ "A", 2000 Rosario - Argentina
Email: mciuro@arnet.com.ar
Human genome research and general bioethics

Hong Kong Bioethics Association
c/o Dr Derrick Au Kit Sing
Department of Rehabilitation
Kowloon Hospital
147A, Argyle Street
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Email: ksau@ha.org.hk
Internet Sites

Publishing is still important in the Internet World, Science 289 (2000), 223-5. In general on Internet, Nature 406 (2000), 227; BMJ 321 (2000), 192; NS (15 July 2000), 15. The www is useful for disabled persons, Lancet 356 (2000), 142. Email consultations are discussed in Lancet 356 (2000), 138.

European Bioethical Research and Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics can be found at www.bioethics.org.uk

OECD site on rules and regulations on genetic screening


The deadline for letter submission (and news) to the next issue is10 November, 2000.

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