The Region of
present
European BIOETICA WORKSHOP*
First European Forum on Bioethics*
* Dates to be decided
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Genetically
modified corn has become an issue between Europe and America, DNA-tests help
police to identify criminals and sometimes they free innocent people from the
death row in the US, but people are also scared that bad results may increase
their insurance fees (or health and life insurance may be even denied),
countries take different stands on stem cell research, genetically modified
organisms produce life-saving medicines, organ transplantation from
genetically modified animals to men seems to be possible, the cloning of
animals is not any more a sensation like the sheep Dolly, some scientists
claim, so far without evidence, that they cloned already babies, medicine
progresses in an enormous speed and many hopes are linked to gene therapy, but
at the same time health care becomes more and more expensive, at least partly
unaffordable to more and more people (not to speak about the Third World), and
analysts see our health care system already dying. The European Union
proclaimed rights related to bioethics in its Charter on Fundamental Rights
and Freedoms and the Council of Europe adopted the European Convention on
Biomedicine and Human Rights. But what is missing is a dialogue between the
various actors in the debate on Bioethics. Therefore the
European Democracy
Forum
will convene for June 2006 a workshop
of eminent
scientists from all areas of life sciences and ethics to discuss the
relations interactions of science, ethics and society. The European
BIOETICA workshop will be followed by a series of national BIOETICA workshops.
For June 2007 eminent scientists, outstanding
representatives of the business community, European policy makers as well as leading representatives of
International Organizations, Churches and NGOs are invited by the authorities
of Alsace, Bas-Rhin, the City of Strasbourg and the European Democracy Forum to gather in Strasbourg and meet Official and Private Sectors’
Representatives from all over the World and discuss
“Bioethics
and European politics”, “Human sciences and ethics”, “Genetics and the Protection
of Personal Data”, The ‘Temptation’ of Eugenics”, “Bio-Terrorism and
Bio-Security”, “Bioethics in
different civilizations” and last but not least “Democratic
Challenges of Bioethics”.
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