Presentation of the book by Veselin Mitrović 10 April 2013 Moderator: Vojin Rakić Participants: Marija Bogdanović Jovan Babić Nada Sekulić Veselin Mitrović Abstract The breakthrough development of biomedical science and technology since the middle of the 20th century has initiated new moral and social questions that arise from the means of using these advances on healthy…
Sandra Radenović 3 April 2013 Abstract As part of the program on the Department for Humanistic Sciences of the University of Belgrade’s Medical School, visits to the non-hygienic Roma settlements were organized. The goal of these visits was to realize direct contacts between students and the members of Roma population, so that future doctors could…
Ayesha Ahmad 5 March 2013 Abstract: Should we erase trauma memories? In this lecture, I discuss ethical issues surrounding the possibility of the erasure or deletion of trauma evoking memories. Contemporary psychiatric practice and advancements in neuro-ethics are providing greater insight and detail into the nature of our memory and the effects of psychological trauma on…
Andreas Poltermann 27 March 2013 Abstract Unlike active euthanasia (killing on request) which the majority of the population would not forbid but also does not support, many people in Germany declared themselves in favor of the possibility of medical participation in the voluntarily chosen suicide. Also, a third of the German medical professionals can imagine…
27 February 2013 Bioethics, ed.Vojin Rakić, Rada Drezgić, Ivan Mladenović, Belgrade: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory The Horizon of Bioethics: Morality in the Age of the Technical Reproduction of Life, ed.Rada Drezgić, Željko Radinković, Predrag Krstić. Belgrade: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. As part of the project “Bioethical Aspects: Morally Acceptable Within the…
Dubravka Vejnović 24 December 2012 Abstract The goal of this lecture is to encourage consideration regarding the problem of dividing human population into races and to clarify whether the concept of race is justified from a biological and genetic aspect. Also, we will consider the justification of using racial qualification as a parameter in biomedical…
Voin Milevski 17 December 2012 Abstract The text written by Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini “After-birth-abortion: why should the baby live?” has, since its first publication this year, caused enormous interest and, in many cases, disapproval of the public. This is entirely understandable as the authors present several controversial claims. Firstly, they start from the…
Rosamond Rhodes 7 December 2012 Biography Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine where she oversees the medical ethics curriculum for students in all four years of medical school, for house staff in eleven residency programs, for graduate post-doctoral fellows in the biomedical…
On 20-21 August of 2017 the Center for the Study of Bioethics, the Division of Medical Ethics in NYU School of Medicine´s Department of Population Health and The Hastings Center were jointly organizing the international conference “Genome editing: biomedical and ethical perspectives”. The conference took place at the Center for the Study of Bioethics in…
On 22-23 September 2016 the Center for the Study of Bioethics organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade the international conference ‘’Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation’’. Conference participants included domestic and foreign researchers in the fields of Philosophy of Science. The conference was held in the Rectorate of the University…