Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics
EJAIB Vol 7 (4) July 1997

ISSN 1173-2571, Copyright 1997 (All rights reserved, for commercial reproductions but access open for personal use).
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pp. 115-125 EJAIB July 1997 News

Topical list of News in Bioethics and Biotechnology
List is complete 1991 - May 1997, in 31 topics. News from 1991-1993 are in the OLD news files, and from 1994 in the NEW files.

Page, and titles of papers

97-98 Editorial - EJAIB and Asia - Darryl Macer

99 EAAB News: The President's Column - Hyakudai Sakamoto

125-127 East Asian Association of Bioethics Membership List

100 Third International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable Draft Program, in Nov 1997

101-2 Asian Bioethics Conference Draft Program in Kobe and Fukui, in Nov 1997

102-104 To Value Life and Existence - Sahin Aksoy

104-105 Commentary on Aksoy: The Meaning of Life - Frank J. Leavitt

105-107 Case Study 1: Hemodialysis for a patient in persistent vegetative state - Atsushi Asai, Masashi Shirahama, Sara Carmel

108 The Death of Canada's Proposed Reproductive and Genetic Technologies Act - Timothy Caulfield

108-110 Genetic norms, eugenic logic and UNESCO's IBC - Melanie Rock

111-114 Biotechnology and young citizens: Biocult in New Zealand and Japan - Darryl Macer, Hiroko Obata, Mairi Levitt, Howard Bezar, Ken Daniels

115 Commentary on Macer et al.:Science, Education and Nature - Masahiro Morioka

125 Genetics and Bioethics network - New or changed addresses are below:

Sahin Aksoy, MD.
Centre for Social Ethics and Policy,
Manchester University
Humanities Building, Oxford Road, M13 9PL, UK.
Tel: +44-161-273 5661 Fax: +44-161-275 3262
Email: sahin.aksoy@man.ac.uk
Bioethics

Dr. Gordon Clement
Queensland Pharmaceutical Research Inst.
Griffith University, AUSTRALIA
Email: G.Clement@sct.gu.edu.au
Bioprospecting; "north-south" joint ventures

Dr. Anne Lawton
School of Business Administration,
Miami University,
120 Upham Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, USA
Tel: +1-513-529-4932 Fax: +1-513-529-9598
Email: lawtonam@muohio.edu
Legal constraints on use of genetic information

Prof.Dr.Dr.Joseph Schmucker-von-Koch
Interdisciplinary research group human sciences
Philosophy Department, University of Regensburg, D93040 Regensburg GERMANY
Email: joseph.schmucker-von-koch@psk.uni-regensburg.de
Biotechnology, neurosciences and their implicationsfor the concept of human dignity.

Prof. Daniel Serrao
Faculdade de Medicina
Laboratorio de Anatomia Patologica
Rua de S. Tome, 746, 4200 Porto, PORTUGAL
Fax: +351-2-825-071
Email: dserrai@nud.up.pt

Dr. Gregor Wolbring
Dept. of Medical Biochemistry,
University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N, 4N1
Tel: 1-403-2205448 Fax : 1-403-2834740
Email: gwolbrin@acs.ucalgary.ca
How bio- and gene- technologies are changing the situation of marginalized groups in societies

Internet Links and On-line Journals

Centre for Applied Ethics, Hong Kong Baptist University <http://relphil.hkbu.edu.hk/cae>

Post-doctoral position in France (Toulouse) from INSERM - apply by mid-september.
On "Informed consent and use of biological collections in the framework of genetic epidemiology and population genetics". The candidate should have either a PhD in law, sciences and/or a medical doctorate with interest in genetics and /or a PhD in philosophy or history of sociological sciences. A knowledge of French would help. Apply and find more details from:
Dr. Anne Cambon-Thomsen
Centre d'Immunopathologie et de Ginitique Humaine (CIGH),
CNRS UPR 8291, CHU PURPAN, 31300 Toulouse, France
Tel : +33 (0)5 61 15 84 00
Fax : +33 (0)5 61 49 90 36
E-mail : Anne_Cambon@immgen.cnrs.fr

The deadline for letter submission (and news) to the next issue is 1 September, 1997.

Japanese Bioethics Conferences in Nov 1997

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