Announcements of the HR & Biomedicine conference

After three intensive days of interesting lectures and discussions, we're proud of the results of the international conference on Human Rights & Biomedicine. In Spring 2009 the conference book shall be published, but for now, you can find several presentations of speakers and poster presentations of participants online.

• Prof dr. Herman Nys:   Removal of organs from deceased persons. Legal framework in Europe
• Prof. Fons Coomans:   Access to Health Care as a Human Rights Issue
• Prof. Rick Lawson:  The ECHR and the Biomedicine Convention
• Prof. Elmar Doppelfeld:   Clinical Trials: Different types of medical research – appropriate regulations
• Dr. Carlos de Sola: The Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Medicine
• Prof. dr. Margit Sutrop: Are European moral principles universal?

 Poster presentations:

• Andrea Hellemeyer: Teaching bioethics and human rights: Using audiovisual resources to explore and investigate complex ethical dilemmas
• Maite San Giorgi: The right to equal acces to health care
• Herman Nys, Sarah Defloor & Tom Goffin: National Patient Rights Legislation after the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine – Uniformity or rather Diversity?
• Phoebe Hung: The jurisprudence of public health emergency in international law- a human rights approach
• Ana Lita: Human egg markets
• Alexandra Tereso:   Male exclusion in sexual health care: a matter of human rights
• Mirko Daniel Garasic: Can we accept refusal of naso-gastric treatment by anorexic patients?
• Signe Mezinska & Vents Silis: Research  ethics committees in Latvia:  problems and perspectives
• Imme Petersen: Do Patients Want Feedback of Data from Clinico-Genomic Research?
• Prof. dr. Nenad Hlaca: Free market of DNA tests and the best interest of the child
• Agnieszka Ryczek: Human Liberation. Peter Singer's ethics of reason
• Pauline Jacobs: Force-Feeding of prisoners on hunger strike: the right to self-determination versus the right to intervention
• Marleen Eijkholt: Human reproductive dignity as an ideal regulative CoRe
  
• Maria de Jesus Medina Arellano: The principle of human dignity in human embryonic stam cell research