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Young Paper Award
Congratulations to Dr Francesca Marin of Padua University who won the Young Paper Award at the Societas Eticas Conference in August. Francesca is a researcher at CIGA in Padua and a member of the EPOCH team. Francesca’s paper was titled “Reflections on the Medicine-Society Relationship”. Full details of the conference including an abstract of Francesca’s excellent paper can be found at: http://www.societasethica.info/ Congratulations Francesca!
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Singapore EPOCH Conference
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the conference on ‘Human Enhancement Technologies: Understanding Governance, Policies and Regulatory Structures in the Global Context’ to be held on the 7-8th June 2012 at the Grand Park City Hall hotel, Singapore Speakers include Professor Roger Brownsword, Dr Robert Sparrow and Dr Tamami Fukushi. Full details are in the programme below. Deadline for registration is the 4th May 2012 Registration flyer Programme
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Forthcoming EPOCH workshops
Workshop 1 – Ethics and Governance of Science and Technology Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd February 2012 Maastricht University Workshop 2 29th and 30th March 2012 Karlsruhe, Germany Workshop 3 – Emerging Technologies and Human Enhancement:Challenges to Models of Regulation and Governance Thursday 26th and Friday 27th April 2012 University of Padua, Italy Human Enhancement Technologies Understanding governance, policies and regulatory structures in the global context 7th – 8th June 2012 Singapore – NUS Final EPOCH conference 6th and 7th September 2012 University of Padua, Italy Contact Dr Hammond-Browning for further details: epochproject1@gmail.com
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Goodbye and Hello!
Goodbye and Hello! Goodbye to Dr James Yeates, Research Assistant at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine at Bristol University. James has left us to take up a post with the RSPCA. Many thanks to James for all the work that he put in on the EPOCH project. Hello to Dr Zuzana Deans! Zuzana has formerly worked for the Centre as a teaching associate and has taken up the research post this month – welcome to the EPOCH team!
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The Epoch Project
The overarching aim of EPOCH is to provide a better insight into the role of ethics, and of ethical expertise in particular, in European Union (EU) policies on science and technology. It will also provide guidance regarding the development of European public policies on the topic of ‘human enhancement’ and, more broadly, on the governance of contentious normative issues in science and technology. There are ten partner institutions working on the EPOCH project: Centre for Bioethics and Nanoethics, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark The Centre for Ethics in Medicine (CEM), University of Bristol, UK University of Calgary, Canada Institute for Technology Assessment ...
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Paralympic Committee Presentation
Professor Mike McNamee of Swansea University, and EPOCH partner, recently gave the keynote speech to the Paralympic Committee Conference in Bonn. “Human nature, athletic excellence, and species-specific limits” Intl Parlympic Committee conference, Bonn, Sept 2011 For full details please see the press release: http://www.paralympic.org/Media_Centre/News/General_News/2011_09_03_a.html
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Newsletter March 2011
EPOCH NEWSLETTER #1 — March 2011 ————————————————————- CONTENTS [1] Launch, goals and partners of the EPOCH project [2] Launch of the EPOCH project website [3] Forthcoming EPOCH presentations / publications [4] Contact (newsletter) [1] Launch, goals and partners of the EPOCH project Launched in November 2010, the project ‘Ethics in Public Policy-Making: The Case of Human Enhancement’ (EPOCH) is funded by the European Commission in the Seventh Framework Programme and coordinated by the University of Bristol. The other European partners are based at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, at the universities of Padua, Aarhus, Ljubljana, Maastricht and Swansea, ...
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Project Objectives
EPOCH aims both to broaden and deepen knowledge of the role of ethics in the governance of science and technology, focusing on ethical aspects of new and emerging bio-, neuro- and nanotechnologies and specifically related to the topic of human enhancement (i.e. any modification of the human body aimed at improving performance and realized by scientific-technological means). On the basis of comparative analyses of current governance and normative frameworks at European and national level (including non-EU countries), a comprehensive approach to the governance of contentious developments in science, technology and society will be outlined. It will include guidance and strategic ...
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Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dr Francesca Marin at Padua on the successful defence of her PhD thesis this month! The title of her PhD thesis is “The Principle of Beneficence. Bringing a Central Principle of Medical Ethics and Bioethics Back to Life”. Her thesis highlights the theoretical value and practical application of the principle of beneficence, trying to underscore its meaning and primary role in medical ethics and bioethics as well as its essential connection with other moral principles.Congratulations Francesca from everyone at EPOCH!
