UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights
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10th International Bioethics, Multiculturalism and Religion Workshop – Jerusalem
An Interreligious and Multicultural Perspective on The Nature of Medicine and the Role of Physicians DECEMEBR 17-19, 2024 During the three days of our UNESCO Chair workshop, we will analyze and discuss “The Nature of Medicine and the Role of Physicians”. The...
Prof. Fr. Joseph Tham,LC, at the World Medical Association’s Regional Expert Meeting in Pacific on the WMA Declaration of Helsinki
On December 1st, Prof. Fr. Joseph Tham, LC, Full Professor in Bioethics and Research Scholar of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, will present during the ‘World Medical Association’s Regional Expert Meeting in Pacific on the WMA Declaration of...
Prof. Fr. Joseph Tham, LC, at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong
On December 5th, Prof. Fr. Joseph Tham, LC, Full Professor in Bioethics and Research Scholar of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, will present during the three-day conference "Regulatory Governance of Emerging Health Technologies" in the “Reproductive...
Training Course in Neurobioethics VII Edition
REMAPPING THE TERRITORY – VII Edition 2023-2024 - ONLINE DOWNLOAD FLYER OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAM August 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction - in the scientific arena - of the neologism “neuro-ethics” by Harvard neuropsychiatrist Anneliese Alma Pontius...
Post-Mortem Dignity in Mexico
By Analuisa Ahumada Madrigal, Student, Law School - Universidad Anahuac Queretaro In Mexico there is a great problem with violence, connected to homicides. Mexico has registered around 91 deaths per day[1]; in the 7 entities which reported such statistics, it is said...
Gender-Based Discrimination in Medicine: A General Survey
MD Barrio-Rentería M. T, Galván-López J. M., MD Hernández-Fernández D., Maldonado-Moreno K. A. Despite more than 40 years of human rights and feminist advocacy, gender equality still has a long way to go and remains a complex issue; specially in health and science...
9th International Bioethics, Multiculturalism and Religion Workshop
by Allister Lee, licentiate student in bioethics. In his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis points out the many social issues of the contemporary age which could be characterised by the absence of communal and social purpose and selfish indifference towards...
Research Scholar Prof. Fr. Michael Baggot, LC, at John Cabot University
On May 14, 2023, Prof. Fr. Michael Baggot, LC, Chair Research Scholar and Professor of the Faculty of Bioethics, was one of the speakers during the two-days conference “Technology, Art and the Posthuman: The End or a New Beginning for Humanism?” at John Cabot...
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