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Tenth World Congress of Bioethics on 28-31 July 2010 in Singapore. Theme: "Bioethics in a Globalised World"

The IAB is now receiving 'Expressions of Interest' to host the Eleventh World Congress of Bioethics, to be held in 2012. Other hosting opportunities are also available. [ details here ]

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One way of achieving IAB's goals is by developing Networks of scholars in specific areas of bioethics. These Networks promote dialogue and action. Membership in IAB Networks is open to researchers interested in themes or issues addressed by specific groups. Please contact the coordinator(s) of particular network(s) for further information on their activities and membership. Information on the benefits to and obligations of networks as well as on organizing an IAB network is available here.

ARTS AND BIOETHICS NETWORK Coordinators: Chamu Kuppuswamy & Paul Ulhas MacNeill
Chamu Kuppuswamy, PhD Lecturer in Law School of Law, Bartolome House Winter Street, Sheffield S3 7ND, UK E.mail: C.Kuppuswamy @ sheffield . ac . uk	Paul Ulhas Macneill, PhD Associate Professor Centre for Values, Ethics & the Law in Medicine Telephone +61 2 9036 3405 Fax +61 2 9036 3436 Medical Foundation Building K25 University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia E.mail: pmacneill @ med . usyd . edu . au
Goals. The aim of this network is to increase contribution of the arts to bioethics. It is our belief that the arts enrich bioethical discourse and open up new creative approaches on bioethical issues. Bioethical issues such as cloning, genetic engineering have been the subject of theatre, drama, dance, books and movies. Artistic exploration of these issues have captured public imagination in various ways. Fiction, drama, movies and alternative expressions reframe and conceptualize issues and influence public perception and understanding in powerful ways. Recognizing a contribution from the arts opens a wider avenue to contributions from many cultures. This network will stimulate artistic explorations into culture and bioethics through the initiation of interdisciplinary dialogue between the textual and the non-textual, and between cultures. The network has four aims: To promote critical engagement between artists and non-artists To encourage and facilitate the publication of scholarly articles in journals, on arts-bioethics issues To serve as a forum for reporting of arts events which explore bioethics issues To engage in dialogue through personal experiences in artistic explorations To engage with other IAB networks on artistic exploration into their focus themes Launch of the The Arts and Bioethics Network. The Arts and Bioethics Network was launched at the 9th World Congress of Bioethics, in September 2008 in Rijeka, Croatia with ÔThe Art of Bioethics Exhibition, an Arts Bioethics Performance, a movie, a play, and several academic papers (see as follows). Projects. The Arts and Bioethics Network has organised, hosted or supported the following events: 2008-2009 9th World Congress of Bioethics events: ÔThe Art of Bioethics ExhibitionÕ at the Mali Salon (a gallery of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Rijeka, Croatia, 4thÑ8th September, 2008. Curated and presented by the Arts and Bioethics Network . Officially opened by Professor Raimond Gaita. ÔArts Bioethics Performance SessionÕ, within the 9th World Congress of Bioethics Program, 7th September 2008. Organised and presented by the Arts and Bioethics Network. Screened the movie ÔRomulus, My FatherÕ, 6th September 2008. The Arts and Bioethics Network hosted Professor Raimond Gaita, author of the book ÔRomulus, My Father, who introduced the movie and responded to questions from members of the audience following the screening. Hosted the play ÔCrying HandsÕ written by Angel Naumovski and presented by DLAN ÔTheatre, Visual Arts and Culture of the DeafÕ, Zagreb. Supported a number of papers presented at the 9th World Congress of Bioethics including: Kuan-Ting Chi: ÔNegotiate the Meaning of the Lower Body - Oriental Bodily Arts in Community Health and HumanitiesÕ Jacqueline Chin and Susie Wong: Exploring Identities, Pleasures and Voice in a Hospital Arts-for-Health Program for Breast Cancer Volkan Kavas: World of Mirac: Narratives of a Fifteen-Year-Old Terminally Ill Girl Paul Ulhas Macneill: Spinning Bioethics ÔWorldÕ: A DVD for Teaching Philosophy, Ethics, Law, Linguistic Analyses
BIOETHICS EDUCATION NETWORK Coordinator: Darryl Macer, Ph.D.
Darryl Macer, Ph.D. Regional Advisor in Social and Human Sciences for Asia and the Pacific Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP) UNESCO Bangkok 920 Sukhumvit Road, Prakanong, Bangkok 10110, THAILAND Tel.: +66-2-391-0682 Tel: +66-2-391-0577 ext 141 Fax: +66-2-391-0866 Email: d.macer @ unescobkk . org
Bioethics Education Network on-line. The website is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bioethicseducation Membership. As of October 2008 the International Bioethics Education Network has a functioning yahoo listserve with 170 members, in addition to other members. 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. There is a related yahoo listerve network for students with 122 members: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bioethics_for_students Goals. The initial network was created 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. The network continues under his coordination at UNESCO Bangkok, Thailand, http://www.unescobkk.org/rushsap . The goals of the network are Promotion of bioethics education at all levels Promote public discussion of bioethics 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 institutions and individuals involved are also members of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific School of Ethics 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 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. This network is global.
CLINICAL ETHICS NETWORK Coordinators: George J. Agich, Ph.D. & Stella Reiter-Theil J. Agich
George J. Agich, Ph.D. Director, BGeXperience Program Professor of Philosophy Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 BGeX Office: (419) 372 Ð 7247 Lynn Houtz, Assistant: (419) 372 Ð 2659 Tel. (direct): (419) 372 Ð 3561 Fax: (419) 372 Ð 3864 Email: agichg @ ccf . org	Prof. Stella Reiter-Theil, Ph.D. Professor and Director Institute for Applied Ethics and Medical Ethics University of Basel Missionsstrasse 21 A CH - 4003 Basel Tel. + 41 61 260 21 90/91 Fax: + 41 61 260 21 95 Email: s.reiter-theil @ unibas . ch
Membership. No formal membership requirements beyond an interest in promoting clinical ethics and consultation. History Founded as the Bioethics Education Network at the Inaugural World Congress of Bioethics in Amsterdam 1992 Original mission was collection and distribution of teaching materials (course syllabi, lesson plans) for fledgling bioethics courses and programs Activities evolved to include bioethics education program consultation Name changed to Clinical Ethics Network in 2008 to better reflect current focus on clinical ethics and consultation Goals Promote the activities, development, and education for the field of clinical ethics, including healthcare ethics committees and clinical ethics consultants Projects. Organize sessions at IAB World Congresses on clinical ethics and ethics consultation WCB9 Satellite Conference: Fourth International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation WCB9 Network Special Session: Ethics Policies in Health Care Settings, 10:30-12:30, September 6, 2008, Croatian Cultural Hall 2 Support the Series of International Conferences on Clinical Ethics and Consultation Support collaborative international projects on clinical ethics and consultation
DEFINITION OF DEATH NETWORK Coordinator: Calixto MACHADO Calixto MACHADO, MD, Ph.D. Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery Havana,Cuba Tel.: 537 ï¿½ 832 2233 E.mail: braind @ infomed. sld . cu Website: www.changesurfer.com/BD/
Membership. It has members from all continents. Goals. Our mail goal is to discuss all issues related to human death: definition of death, death on neurological grounds, end-of-life dilemmas, persistent vegetative state, minimally conscious state, etc., and to provide a suitable scientific platform to discuss all topics related to human death and disorders of consciousness. Projects. We just organized the 5th International Symposium of the Definition of Death Network, held in Varadero Beach, Cuba, on May 20-23, 2008, where the main goal was to provide a suitable scientific platform to discuss all topics related to human death, end-of-life dilemmas, and disorders of consciousness.
ENVIRONMENTAL BIOETHICS Coordinator: James Dwyer
James Dwyer, Ph.D. SUNY Upstate Medical University Center for Bioethics and Humanities 725 Irving Avenue, Suite 406 Syracuse, NY 13210 Email: dwyerja @ upstate . edu
Background. When Van Rensselaer Potter coined the term ÒbioethicsÓ in 1970, he had in mind a field of study that would bring together biological knowledge and ethical concern. He hoped this field would include broad issues about global trends, population health, acceptable survival, and the natural environment. But these broad issues received relatively little attention in the field that appropriated the name Òbioethics.Ó For the most part, bioethics focused on medical developments and ignored environmental issues. But the environmental problems are more serious and urgent than ever: climate change population growth over consumption of resources shortages of fresh water deforestation air pollution emerging infectious diseases extinction of species In the face of these and other problems, we need to consider ways to bring environmental concerns back into bioethics.
Membership. We maintain an email list of members, and we meet at each IAB Congress. Goals. The goals of this Network are: To bring together concerns about health, the environment, sustainability, justice, and responsibility To integrate these concerns into discussions, scholarship, and activism To explore how public health ethics could bridge bioethics and environmental ethics Projects. At the Congress in Croatia, we sponsored a special session on Making Connections: Bioethics and Environmental Ethics. We also discussed ideas for the 2010 Congress in Singapore.
ETHICS AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY Coordinators: Professor Robert M. Veatch & Dr J.S. Reinders
Professor Robert M. Veatch Kennedy Institute of Ethics Georgetown University Washington D.C. 20057 USA Email: veatchr @ georgetown . edu	Dr J.S. Reinders Department of Philosophy University of Notre Dame Notre Dame Indiana 46556, USA Email: J.S.Reinders @ esau . th . vu . nl
Membership. We have not included the enhancement of IAB membership among our tasks. We have a mailing list of about 600 people. Goals. To promote the discussion of ethical dimensions of intellectual disabilities. Projects. Publication, twice a year, of Newsletter on Ethics and Intellectual Disability. It is now in its 11th volume.
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION (INERA) Website: resourceallocation.blogspot.com Coordinators: David Hunter & Mark Cutter
David HUNTER Lecturer in Bioethics University of Ulster, Northern Ireland E.mail: d.hunter3 @ ulster . ac . uk / idmonfish @ gmail . com School of Biomedical Sciences University of Ulster Coleraine campus Cromore Road Coleraine Co. Londonderry BT52 1SA Tel.: +44 (0)28 70323179	Anthony Mark CUTTER Senior Lecturer in Law and Health Ethics University of Central Lancashire England E.mail: amcutter @ uclan . ac . hl Lancashire Law School Harris 12 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR 2HE Tel.: +44 (0)1772 893081
Regional Coordinators Shlomi SEGALL, Harvard University, USA Lisa ECKENWILER, Old Dominion University, USA Webmaster and technical support Anna SMAJDOR, Imperial College, London, UK Sign up to the mailing list here: resourceallocation.blogspot.com There is a blog that focuses on political philosophy in bioethics more generally: resourceallocation.blogspot.com As part of INEIRA (and also INPAB/International Network for Philosophy and Bioethics): www.opmlmanager.com/opml/idmonfish.opml Goals. Resource allocation issues are prevalent and pertinent to discussions within all fields of bioethics and its related disciplines. Beginning from the IAB's definition of Bioethics as an interdisciplinary field of study, the International Network for Ethical Issues in Resource Allocation (INERA) will incorporate the widest range of disciplines and stakeholder groups to establish a vibrant, international, network for research and collaboration in the field. INERA aims to be a network which crosses these various boundaries and divides, bring people together to debate issues in resource allocation, broadly defined. Projects. Examples of outputs that will be developed as the network matures. Web-portal: The network will establish a web-portal that will provide the nexus for the interdisciplinary community working in this field. Through the web-portal the network will facilitate international, cross-disciplinary collaboration and discussion through a variety of methods. Included on the web-portal will be: Expert Database: Members of the network will have the option to have their name, areas of expertise and (optional) contact information included on an open access database of ï¿½resource allocation expertiseï¿½ List-Server: An email list server, moderated by the coordinators, will be established to facilitate communication and dissemination within the network. It is intended to recruit regional coordinators in each area of the world who will keep the email list up to date with public reports, conferences and other relevant information. (We)blog: A weblog will be initiated that will provide a forum for members to develop and test ideas, and facilitate collaboration between members. Wiki-INERA: A wiki-based encyclopedia will be established that will function as a member developed resource of information, influential work and commentary on the relevant issues in resource allocation across medicine, science and technology.
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON FEMINIST APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS Coordinators: Jackie Leach Scully & Rebecca Kukla Website: www.fabnet.org
Jackie Leach Scully, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer in Sociology School of Geography, Politics and Sociology Newcastle University 5th Floor Claremont Bridge Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU United Kingdom Tel: +44(0) 191 222 7502 Fax: +44(0) 191 222 5421 E.mail: jackie.sculy @ncl . ac . uk (www.ncl.ac.uk/geps)	Rebecca Kukla, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Program in Medical Humanities and Boethics University of South Florida FAO 226 Tampa, FL 33620-7926 Tel: (813) 974-5137 Fax: (813) 974-5914 E.mail: rkukla @ cas . usf . edu (rkukla.googlepages.com)
Membership. 170 members from 26 countries Goals. Our goals are to develop a more inclusive theory of bioethics encompassing the standpoints and experiences of women and other marginalized social groups, to examine presuppositions embedded in the dominant bioethical discourse that privilege those already empowered, and to create new methodologies and strategies responsive to the disparate conditions of women's lives across the globe. Short description of the goals: promote scholarly work in feminist bioethics foster international collaborations and facilitate the exchange of information among feminist bioethicists support the work of women in developing countries encourage and facilitate the participation of un- and under-employed people in the activities of the FAB Network (especially the bi-annual meeting) Projects. Biennial conference, development of country representatives network, publication of feminist bioethics collections, operation of active listserv and maintenance of FAB website. Short description of the main projects: organisation of a bi-annual congress that is recognized as the pre-eminent international feminist bioethics meeting, attracting participants from both developed and developing nations launch of the International Journal on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB) which promotes feminist scholarship (first issue in April 2008) development and maintenance of the country representativesÕ group to promote networking and sharing of information and support for this group to present a panel at the biennial congress maintenance of the listserv to encourage communication and sharing of information maintenance of the interactive website which contains full details of the activities of FAB: www.fabnews.org administration of the Audre Lorde Fund that provides support to members with limited travel funds to facilitate their participation in the biennial congress
GENETICS AND BIOETHICS Coordinators: Minakshi Bhardwaj, PhD & Darryl Macer, Ph.D.
Dr. Minakshi Bhardwaj ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen) Cardiff University 6, Museum Place Cardiff CF10 3BG UK Email: bhardwajm@cardiff.ac.uk (www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk) Phone: +44 (0)2920 879602 Fax: +44 (0)2920 870024	Darryl Macer, Ph.D. Regional Advisor in Social and Human Sciences for Asia and the Pacific Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP) UNESCO Bangkok 920 Sukhumvit Road Prakanong, Bangkok 10110 THAILAND Tel.: +66-2-391-0682 Tel: +66-2-391-0577 ext 141 Fax: +66-2-391-0866 E.mail: d.macer @ unescobkk . org Website: www.eubios.info/GBNads.htm
Membership. There are 268 members of the IAB Genetics & Bioethics Network on paper but there is little activity. Goals. The Genetics and Bioethics Network, and the designated journal, Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics (EJAIB), are forums for exchange within the Genetics Network. The Network will facilitate international communication about research, publications, meetings, etc. related to ethical, legal and social issues raised by both human and non-human applications of genetics and biotechnology. You are invited to send reprints, statements of research interests and activities, notices, news, etc Projects. The network has met at every IAB World Congress of Bioethics to date, usually seeing about 20 persons join a discussion. A number of persons may not be IAB members, and there is currently no check of IAB membership. It is not a criteria of membership in the Genetics network. Some members publish papers in EJAIB, and those papers are open on the Internet. The most recent additions are placed every two months in the latest issue of EJAIB. A short description of main projects and the publication of papers in EJAIB and meetings, home page and members list is: eubios.info/net.htm
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR PHILOSOPHY AND BIOETHICS (INPAB) Website/Blog: philosophyandbioethics.blogspot.com Coordinators: James Wilson & David Hunter
James WILSON Lecturer in Ethics Centre for Professional Ethics Keele University Keele, Stafforsdshire, ST5 5BG, UK Tel.: +44 (0)1782 584085; Fax: +44 (0)1782 584297 E.mail: j.g.wilson @ peak . keele . ac . uk	David HUNTER Lecturer in Bioethics University of Ulster Coleraine campus Cromore Road Coleraine Co. Londonderry, BT52 1SA Northern Ireland Tel.: +44 (0)28 70323179 E.mail: d.hunter3 @ ulster . ac . uk / idmonfish @ gmail . com
Membership. Sign up to the mailing list here: >maillists.keele.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/inpab There is a blog that focuses on issues in bioethics more generally although there is a focus on fundamental philosophical issues. However there is also a section that may be of more general interest on a variety of ways to use current innovations to facilitate life in academia: philosophyandbioethics.blogspot.com/search/label/Academic%20Ease?max-results=100 As part of INPAB (and also INEIRA/International Network for Ethical Issues in Resource Allocation): www.opmlmanager.com/opml/idmonfish.opml Goals. The Philosophy and Bioethics Network aims to bring together philosophers working within bioethics in order to foster discussion and scholarship of the fundamental philosophical issues underlying bioethics. We envisage the network facilitating debate in (at least) the following three broad areas: Ethical theory in bioethics The nature of good moral reasoning Use of broader philosophical ideas in bioethics Projects. The network will aim to organise a satellite conference at the 2008 IAB conference, and would be very pleased to undertake organisation of a philosophy themed panel within the main conference. We have created an email mailing list to facilitate discussion, to give members news of forthcoming conferences, and news of relevant new work in the field.
Public Health Ethics Network Coordinators: Angus Dawson & Marcel Verweij
Dr. Angus Dawson Centre for Professional Ethics Keele Hall, Keele University Staffs, ST5 5BG. UK Phone: +44 (0) 1782 584082 Fax: +44 (0) 1782 584239 E.mail: a.j.dawson @ keele . ac . uk Centre Website: www.keele.ac.uk/ethics Personal Webpage: www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ep/peak/ajdawson.html Tel: +44 (0) 1782 584082 Fax: +44 (0) 1782 584239	Marcel Verweij Ethics Institute Utrecht University Heidelberglaan 2 NL-3584 CS Utrecht The Netherlands ph: +31 30 253 9208 / 4399 fax: +31 30 2539410 Office: Heidelberglaan 2 (Van Unnikgebouw) Room 20.31 E-mail: m . f . verweij @ ethics . uu . nl web: www.ethics.uu.nl
Membership. We have over 100 members on our email list Goals. To raise the profile of public health ethics as an area of research (within the IAB and in the academic environment in general) To encourage and actively engage in research and debate about ethical issues in public health policy and practice To encourage and facilitate international research collaborations in the area of public health ethics Projects. These are mainly informal collaborations between individuals.
IBERO-AMERICAN Network Florencia Luna, Debora Diniz, Maria Casado, & Asunci—n Alvarez
Florencia Luna, Ph.D. FLACSO/CONICET E.mail: florluna @ pccp . com . ar	Debora Diniz, Ph.D. ANIS E.mail: d.diniz @ anis . org . br
Maria Casado, Ph.D. Universidad de Barcelona E.mail: mariacasado@ub.edu	Asunci—n Alvarez, Ph.D. Colegio de bioŽtica E.mail: asun57 @ gmail . com, asun @ servidor . unam . mx
Goals. One of the aims of this network is to foster the value of free, open, and reasoned discussion in order to reach thoughtful and reasoned positions regarding many of the bioethical problems that Ibero-America faces or that may be of interest to the people of this region. We believe that this goal is in harmony with the London Declaration adopted by the Board of Directors at its 5th World Congress, September 2000. This statement re-affirms that bioethics plays a central role in professional and public debates and notes that in many countries and cultures basic freedom of discussion and disagreement is upheld and promoted. While this freedom is imperiled in other countries and cultures and there is widespread reluctance to discuss problems openly, the reasoned solution may run counter to established opinions and traditions. It also affirms that in public discourse, no individual or group can claim to have exclusive knowledge of the ÒrightÓ ethical solution and that only reasoned and open debate can lead to justifiable conclusions. We think this network can foster this open thinking throughout the region and about the region. We can share knowledge, experience and promote further research. Language is sometimes a barrier to international academic meetings. One of the tools to achieve this debate and reasoned discussion is by helping people to express themselves in their own languages (Spanish and Portuguese). However, it is also important to preserve links with English speakers so that they can participate (for example, sessions in Spanish or Portuguese also include power point presentations in English, as well as an English version of the abstracts or handouts). We believe that incorporating these other languages fosters the spirit of the IAB by providing a pluralistic space not only for ideas but also for languages, allowing and empowering people that do not feel comfortable speaking in another language to do so in their own.
ETHICAL ASPECTS OF SECURITY & SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES (EAST Network) Coordinator(s) / contact(s): Emilio Mordini, Ph.D.
Emilio Mordini, Ph.D. Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship Piazza Capo di Ferro 23 - 00186 Rome - Italy Phone: +39 0645551042/3 - Fax: +39 0645551044 Secretariat: info@east-network.org E.mail: emilio.mordini @ cssc . eu Website: www.east-network.org
Scientific Committee: Alastair Campbell (Singapore), Emilio Mordini (IT), Nikola Pavesic (SI), GŸnter Schumacher (EC). Membership. The network has been established only in June 2008. Membership is open both to individuals, organizations and other existing networks Goals. Gathering all bioethicists who have been variously involved in the debate on security and surveillance technologies and sharing knowledge, experience, and coordinate efforts and research. Promoting further research and conversation and raising new interest in the bioethical community around the issues concerned with security and surveillance policies, practices, and technologies. Projects. The basic coordination of the network will be initially ensured by the Center for Science, Society and Citizenship. We are going to develop a light coordination structure with some nodes represented by various research centers and institutions that have already shown their interested in participating. The network will also rely on some permanent initiatives such as symposia to be organized in conjunction with IAB conferences and, as a midterm goal, to launch an eJournal on Ethical Aspects of Security and Surveillance Technologies.