Asian Bioethics Association

Eighth Asian Bioethics Conference (ABC2007)

Draft Agenda

19 – 23 March 2007

Century Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

ABC2007 is concurrent with the Second UNESCO Bangkok Bioethics Roundtable (BBRT2).

(For further updated programs and information visit http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/ABC2007/index.html)

The financial contributions of the Wellcome Trust and World Health Organization, as well as numerous other bodies and individuals have made this event possible. ABC2007 is co-organised by the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University; College of Public Health, Chulalongkorn University; Regional Unit for Science and Human Science in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP), UNESCO Bangkok; National Health Foundation, Thailand; and APEC Foresight, Thailand.

We request all persons to complete onsite registration, and at that time to indicate their attendance at the evening dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. All speakers please note that you should include at least 5 minutes open discussion in your allotted timeslot in the program.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

The onsite registration desk will be open from 3 pm to 8 pm

(outside the 3^rd floor Ballroom which is the conference venue).

Monday, March 19, 2007

The registration desk is available throughout the conference from 8am to 5pm.

1. Opening Session

Chair: Dr. Soraj Hongladarom

8.45 – 8.50 Welcome to the Eighth Asian Bioethics Conference

Prof. Jayapaul Azariah, President, Asian Bioethics Association

8.50 – 8.55 Opening Remarks

Prof. Suchada Kiranandana, President, Chulalongkorn University

8.55 – 9.00 Message from Founding President, Asian Bioethics Association

Hyakudai Sakamoto, Founding President, Asian Bioethics Association

9.00 – 9.05 Welcome to the Second UNESCO Bangkok Bioethics Roundtable

Prof. Darryl Macer, Regional Adviser in Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO

9.05 – 9.25 Ethical Issues Facing Science and Technology

Prof. Yongyuth Yuthavong, Minister of Science and Technology, Royal Government of Thailand

9.25 – 9.45 Asian Bioethics: Challenges and Prospects in the Coming Decade

Prof. Leonardo de Castro, University of the Philippines

2. Medical Ethics Across Cultures

Chair: Prof. Darryl Macer

9.45 – 10.00 Bioethics and the Pan Asian SNP project

Maude Phipps

10.00 – 10.15 Importance of Ethics and Morality using Biotechnologies in the Clinic

Li Zhong Lin and Liu Zhan Ju

10.15 – 10.30 Status of Cadaveric Liver Donation in Saudi Arabia – a Single Center Experience

Abdaal Khan

10.30 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 11.15 Functions of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Singapore

Alastair Campbell

11.15 – 11.30 A Survey of the Assessment of the General Practitioners’ View Points about the Physician Charter

Hashemi Fatemeh, Amini Mitra, and Saberfirousi Mehdi

11.30 – 11.45 Ethics in Infertility Treatment – A Study of Practices in Allopathic and Siddha Medicine

Jamuna Krishnan and Murali Krishnan

11.45 – 12.00 Communicating Bad News to Patients in Circumstances in which There is No Protocol

Matthew MacLeod

12.00 – 12.15 Is the Use of Animal Organs for Transplants Morally Acceptable? -- Debates over the Use of Animals in Xenotransplantation

Lei Rui Peng

12.15 – 13.00 Lunch

3. Bioethical Issues in Genetics and Stem Cell Research

Chair: Dr. Nares Damrongchai and Prof. Aamir Jafarey

13.00 – 13.15 Cloning and Stem Cell Research Issues: Religious Viewpoints on Value of Life

Bagher Larijani and Fazaneh Zahedi

13.15 – 13.30 Genetic Technologies and Egalitarianism

Jessica Wolfendale and Jeremy Moss

13.30 – 13.45 Stem Cell Research: Science, Ethics and the Popular Media

Karori Mbugua

13.45 – 14.00 Bioethics Concerns in Regulating Large DNA Collections: The Israeli Experience

David Gurwitz

14.00 – 14.15 Preventing Human Subjects in Research in Cambodia

Phanit Prom

14.15 – 14.30 Ethics of Human Therapeutic Cloning Research in Japan: Current Debate of Drafting the Ethical Guidelines

Ryuichi Ida

14.30 – 14.45 Is it Morally Acceptable to Use a Cancerous Kidney for Transplantation?

Tsuyoshi Awaya

4. Histories of Bioethics

Chair: Dr. Nares Damrongchai

14.45 – 15.00 The Sorcerer and His Apprentice: Racial Eugenicist Otmar von Verschuer and his student Josef Mengele. Lessons for Dealing with Medical Atrocities in different Regional Contexts to be Learned from the Aftermath

Peter Degen

15.00 – 15.15 Public Health and its Ethical Aspects in Ottoman State (1299-1923): Some Good Examples for Modern Age

Sahin Aksoy

15.15 – 15.30 Consideration at the First Case of a Kidney Trade in Japan

Miyako Okada-Takagi

15.30 – 15.45 Break

5. Nanoethics

Chair: Prof. John Weckert

15.45 – 16.00 Nanotechnology’s Ethics, Safety and Society Implication – In Which Role Does NANOTEC Play?

Sirasak Teparkum

16.00 – 16.15 The Impact of Nanotechnologies on Developing Countries

Joachim Schummer

16.15 – 16.30 Technological Determinism, Values and the Precautionary Principle in Nanotechnology

John Weckert

6. Bioethics in Underrepresented Areas

Chair: Prof. Darryl Macer and Dr. Niyada Kiatying-angsulee

16.30 – 16.45 Public Debates, Ethics and Science Policy: A Case Study from the Mongolian Master Plan on Science and Technology

Amarbayasgalan Dorjderem

16.45 – 17.00 Bioethical Challenges in the Pacific Islands

Sue Vize

17.00 – 17.15 To Promote the Principles of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights in Georgia

Elisabed Giorgadze

17.15 – 17.30 Ethics of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Glen Kurokawa and Darryl Macer

17.30 – 17.45 General Discussion

7. Moral Status of Embryos, Animals and Abortion

Chair: Prof. Lee Shui Chuen

17.45 – 18.00 Is It Moral to Euthanize Animals?

Wang Hsuan Ju

18.00 – 18.15 Do Pregnant Women need a Cooling Period for Abortion?—Some Reflections from the Caring Point of View

Lin Hsiao-Chyi

18.15 – 18.30 The Moral Status of Embryo

Hannah Chen

18.30 – 18.45 A Historical Approach to the Hippocratic Oath

Kuo Li-Chuan

18.45 – 21.00 Welcoming Reception

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

8. Buddhist Bioethics

Chair: Dr. Somparn Promta

8.30 – 8.45 Buddhist Theories of No Self as a Foundation for New Bioethics

Susantha Goonatilake

8.45 – 9.00 What to be Known and What to be Unknown in Biomedical Research: A View from Buddhism

Somparn Promta

9.00 – 9.15 Buddhist Model for Public Health

Mettanando Bhikkhu

9.15 – 9.30 In Search of Buddhist Foundation for Environmental Ethics

Pagorn Singhasuriya

9.30 – 9.45 Improve “Consumer Protection” with Buddhist Ethics: Necessity, Possibility and Challenge

Suntaree Chaisumritchoke

9:45 - 10:00 General Discussion

10.00 – 10.20 Break

9. Cultural Perspectives on Principles of Ethics and Love of Life

Chair: Prof. Darryl Macer

10.20 – 10.40 Sciences, Ethics and Thai Society

Somsak Chunharas

10.40 – 10.55 Future of Bioethics – Rational BioCosmology?

Konstantin Khroutski

10.55 – 11.10 Bioethics: Love of Life Through the Knowledge of Chanting for Health and Peace

Chutatip Umavijani

11.10 – 11.25 Four Principles of Bioethics in Islamic Perspective

Heday Shadi

11.25 – 11.40 Justice as Shown in Tamil Literature

P. Senthil Kumaran, Arockiam Thaddeus, M. A. Jothirajan, T. J. Mathavan

11.40 – 11.55 Autonomy, Dignity, and Compassion: Dying with Dignity in the Context of Japanese Culture

Michio Miyasaka

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

10. Privacy: East and West

Chair: Dr. Brigitte Jansen and Prof. Jayapaul Azariah

13.00 – 13.15 Privacy: An Old Fashioned Western Driven Paradigm?

Brigitte Jansen

13.15 – 13.30 Privacy as an Human Territory: A German Perspective

Juergen Simon

13.30 – 13.45 Biomedical Ethics and the Right of Privacy in the Indian Law

N. Manohar

13.45 – 14.00 European Standards on Confidentiality and Privacy in Healthcare

Colin Harper

14.00 – 14.15 Collection and Protection of Genetic Data in the European Union

Cosimo Mazzoni and Valeria Carfi

14.15 – 14.30 Confidentiality and Genetic Data: Ethical and Legal Rights and Duties. An European Perspective

Sergio Romeo-Malanda

14.30 – 14.45 Privacy of Biometric Information in a Networked Environment: a Philosophical Approach

Eamon Daly

14.45 – 15.00 Globalisation and the Dynamic Role of Human Rights in Relation to a Common Perspective for Human Biotechnology

Carlos Romeo Casabona

15.00 – 15.20 General Discussion

15.20 – 15.45 Break

11. Confucianism and A New Dimension of Bioethics

Chair: Prof. Lee Shui Chuen

15.45 – 16.00 Justice and Health Care: A Confucian Program

Lee Shui Chuen

16.00 – 16.15 A Comparative study of Confucian and Taoist conception of Well-Being and Their Implications on Health

Wong Hon Chung

16.15 – 16.30 A Confucian Appraisal of Justice in Genetic Therapy and Genetic Enhancement

Chou Wan-Ling

16.30 – 16.45 Confucian Conception of Genetic Privacy and Public Interest and Its Application to Biobank

Kuo Yen Ling

16.45 – 17.00 General Discussion

Move to neighbouring Dinner Room for session 13

12. Asian Perspectives on Neuroethics: Can Neuroscience Contribute Peace and Health of Human Being?

Chair: Dr. Tamami Fukushi and Prof. Osamu Sakura

17.10 – 17.25 Current Status of Neuroethics: International Frontier and Asian perspectives

Tamami Fukushi and Osamu Sakura

17.25 – 17.40 Neuroethics: Pathetic Pleasure and Persistent Pain

Jayapaul Azariah

17.40 – 17.55 Toward A Clearer Understanding of the Multi-Cultural Perspectives Concerning Pressing Neuroethical Issues

Chen Dao Fen

17.55 – 18.10 General Discussion

18.15 – 21.00 Cultural Programs and Conference Dinner

Each participant is invited to take part either actively or passively in the cultural evening. This will start at 18:45 after people take their seats at a sit down dinner. This tradition of several ABC meetings and the BBRT allows an opportunity for cheerful informality. You can take the chance to share your cultural heritage and discover other cultures. We ask each participant to bring something from their community or country. It could be a traditional object, a costume, a short play, a dance show or a song that you will present in an original way.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

13. Ethical Challenges of Aging

Chair: Dr. Soraj Hongladarom

8.45 – 9.00 Aging Prevention Paradigm: Against the Idle Brain

Oleg Artemenko and Natalia Aniskovich

9.00 – 9.15 Legal and Ethical Protection of Aging Persons

Cordelia Thomas

9.15 – 9.30 Personhood-as-Process, and the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism: Red Herring, or Conceptual Bridge?

Steven Horrobin

9.30 – 9.45 Ethics of Increasing Human Lifespan

Soraj Hongladarom

14. Medical Ethics and Relationships

Chair: Prof. Alastair Campbell

9.45 – 10.00 The Unity of Ethics in the Face of the Diversity of Morals?

Margit Sutrop

10.00 – 10.15 A Critical Reflection on Utilitarianism as the Basis of Psychiatric Ethics

Michael Robertson

10.15 – 10.30 Ethical aspects arising from the involvement of psychiatrists in termination of pregnancy

Kirsty Morris

10.15 – 10.30 Viewpoints of Euthanasia between the Public and Nurses

Heo Yang Hee

10.30 – 10.45 Break

10.45 – 11.00 Brain Stem Death, Persistant Vegetative State and Asking to Die in the Indonesian Moslem Society

M. Sajid Darmadipura

11.00 – 11.15 When Personal Interests Come into Conflict with Patient Interests: And What Could, Should, or Would be done about It

Norman Bailey

11.15 - 11.30 Fetal (an unborn child) Checkup- for Whom?

Park So Young

15. Medical Doctors' Moral Dilemmas

Chair: Prof. Yanguang Wang and Dr. Fan Chien Te

11.30 – 11.45 Ethics: Dynamic Moral Status among Hospital, Patient and Physician

Tai Chih-Jaan and Tsai Duujian

11.45 – 12.00 Law: An Incomplete Legal Response to the Health Care Delivery System

Fan Chien-Te, Lin Jui Chu, and Lee Chung His

12.00 – 12.15 Sociology: Lacking of Sufficient Institutional Support to Support Physician in Confrontation with The Challenge Derived from the Public Health System Reform

Lu Shin Yi

12.15 – 13.00 Lunch

16. Research Ethics

Chair: Prof. Abnik Gupta

13.00 – 13.15 Ethics and Laboratory Practice

D. S. Sheriff

13.15 – 13.30 Ethics in Clinical Trial for AIDS Vaccine and Antiretroviral Drugs: Patient Perspectives in Thailand

Niyada Kiatying-Angsulee and Niphattra Haritavorn

13.30 – 13.45 Informed Consent in Malaysia: A Socio-Legal Study

Anisah Che Ngah

13.45 – 14.00 Externally-Sponsored Research in Developing Countries: A challenge for Research Ethics Committees

Alireza Bagheri

14.00 – 14.15 Ethical Considerations in International Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Debjani Mukherjee

14.15 – 14.30 Ethical Issues in Post Disaster Clinical Interventions and Research

Athula Sumathipala

14.30 – 14.45 Informed Consent in Sri Lanka: Review of Research Conducted in Sri Lanka to Understand the Progress of Informed Consent Process

Suwin Hewege

17. Ethical and Social Implications of Biotechnology

Chair: Prof. Sang-yong Song

14.45 – 15.00 Analyzing Stakeholder Attitudes, Perceiving Ethical Issues and Risk Assessment, in Linking Trust, Bias, and Fairness of Information Sources for Biotechnology Issues: A Bioethical Resonance to Reconcile

Dipankar Saha

15.00 – 15.15 Community Consultation for Statement of Ethical Principles for Biotechnology

Ellen Kittson

15.15 – 15.30 Biotechnology, Genomics and Global Health: A Challenge for Traditional Bioethics

Patricia Kuszler

15.30 – 15.45 Scientific and Technological Advancements for the Holistic Development of Humankind

M. Selvanayagam

15.45 – 16.00 Break

18. An Empirical Study on the Observation of UN Bioethics Related Declarations in Mainland China & Taiwan

Chairs: Prof. Darryl Macer, Yi Ji-Ming and Fan Chien-Te

16.00 – 16.15 Substantial Points in Medical Ethical Formal Procedures: A Medical Professional View

Zheng Chaoqiang and Triumph Wang

16.15 – 16.30 The Establishment of Taiwan Biobank in Compliance with the Ethic Norms Provided under UN Declarations

Fan Chien-Te

16.30 – 16.45 Rights Designation and System Arrangement of Genetic Testing Technique

Jiao Hongtao and Luo Min

16.45 – 17.00 The ELSI Implication of Gene Therapy Development

Lin Jui-Chu and Yi Ji-Ming

17.00 – 17.15 From Principles to Guidelines--The Bioethics and Cultural Pluralism in Taiwan

Lee Chung His

17.15 – 17.30 The Benefit-sharing of Biomedicine Research Production Based on the Genetic Resources

Wu Chunyan

17.30 – 17.45 Reaching for A Harmonized Physician/Patient Relationship in China

Zheng Pingan

19. Ethical and Social Analysis of Stem cell Researches: An Empirical Report of Taiwan Case

Chair: Prof. Lee Shui Chuen

17.50 – 18.05 The Public Opinions of Stem Cell Research in Taiwan: A Factor Analysis

S. C. Liao

18.05 – 18.20 Shaping Social Opinions for Stem Cell Research in Taiwan

D. J. Tsai

18.20 – 18.30 Chair’s Summary and Comments

18.30 – 19.00 Poster Presentation and Discussion

List of Posters

1. Bioethics Clubs in Schools and Colleges: Challenges, Prospects and Benefits, by Arockiam Thaddeus, M.A.Jothi Rajan, T.Mathavan, and P. Senthil Kumaran

2. Nursing Professionals’ Awareness of Ethical Problems in Japan, by Hisako Nakao, Akiko Chisaki, and Masayuki Obayashi

3. The Effectiveness of Medical Ethics Workshop on Different Level of Cognitive Domain in Dental Students

L. Bazrafkan and S. Z. Tabei

Evening Free

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Special Day Symposium on Public Health Ethics

in cooperation with the World Health Organization

20. Ethics in Public Health

Chair: Dr. Valaikanya Plasai

8.45 – 9.15 Ethical Issues in International Health

Richard Cash

9.15 – 9.30 Contemporary Issues of Debate in Social Philosophy

Nesy Daniel

9.30 – 9.45 Public Health Ethics

Sarymsakova Bakhyt

9.45 – 10.00 Private Hospital Role In Health Care in Rural Area - Ethical Dilemmas and the Scope for Improvement in Services to Suit the Needs of the Patients

T. Manopriya and D. S. Sheriff

10.00 – 10.15 Human Rights and Gender Equality

V. Balambal

10.15 – 10.30 Public Health Ethics

Valaikanya Plasai

10.30 – 10.45 Break

21. Capacity building and networking in ethics in public health

Chair: Prof. Leonardo de Castro and Dr. Valaikanya Plasai

10.45 – 11.00 Capacity Building and Networking in Ethics in Public Health

Pittaya Jarupoonpol

11.00 – 11.15 Ethical Problems in Setting Health Care Priorities for the Disadvantaged - A Nordic Perspective

Janne Nikkinen

11.15 – 11.30 The Role of Public and Private Sectors in Health Care: Emerging Ethical Dilemmas in India

Aruna Sivakami

11.30 – 11.45 General Discussion

11.45 – 12.30 General Meeting of the Asian Bioethics Association (Open to all)

12.00 – 13:15 Lunch

22. Ethics in the Practice of Public Health

Chair: Prof. Darryl Macer and Dr. Alireza Bagheri

13.15 – 13.45 Feminist and Virtue Perspectives on the Ethics of Public Health Research

Wendy Rogers

13.45 – 14.00 Social Discrimination and Health Disparity Across Generations: Are We Sufficiently Informed?

Irina Pollard

14.00 – 14.15 HIV/AIDS Prevention: A New Bioethical Framework for China

Wang Yanguang

14.15 – 14.30 Foreign Dental Health Research and the Philippine Dental Act

Len Ramos

14.30 – 14.45 Open Science and the Future of Biomedicine

Yann Joly

14.45 – 15.00 Ethical Dilemmas in Public Health Research

Godofreda V. Dalmacion

15.00 – 15.30 General Discussion

15.30 – 16.00 Break

23. Ethics and Research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region,

supported by the Eastern Mediterranean Office, World Health Organization

Chair: Dr. Aamir Jafarey and Dr. Sahin Aksoy

16.00 – 16.15 The Good/Ethical Doctor: The Eye of the Beholder

Aamir Jafarey

16.15 – 16.30 Adequacy of Ethical Review and Informed Consent Documents Submitted For Funding To The Eastern Mediterranean Region of WHO

Alaa AbouZeid

16.30 – 16.45 Stem Cell Research and Therapy: Voluntary Guidelines for a Public Sector Organization

Rana Muzafar

16.45 – 17.00 Evaluation of Ethics Review Procedures for Research in Egypt

Hany Saleem and Henry Silverman

17.00 – 17.15 Survey of Attitudes of Egyptian Population Living in Remote Area Towards Research Participation and Storage of Human Biological Specimens

Magdi Shehata, Mohamed Shams, Alaa Abou-Zeid, and Henry Silverman

17.15 – 18.00 General Discussion on Public Health Ethics

Chaired by Dr. Valaikanya Plasai and Prof. Richard Cash

18.00 – 20.00 Farewell Dinner

Friday, March 23, 2007

24. Bioethics Education

Chair: Prof. Darryl Macer

8.30 – 8.45 Perception of Modern Medical Ethical Issues by Non-Medical Science Graduates

M. A. Jothi Rajan

8.45 – 9.00 Teaching Ethics and Humanities to Medical Students in Sri Lanka: A Multi-Cultural Approach

Anoja Fernando

9.00 – 9.15 Young People, Ethics and Culture: Some Observations on a Comparison of Responses to Contemporary Biomedical Dilemmas in Sri Lanka and Great Britain, and their Implications for Medical Education

P. V. R. Kumasiri

9.15 – 9.30 Knowledge of Bioethics amongst Postgraduate Trainees of a Medical University in Southern Pakistan

Inayat Memon

9.30 – 9.45 Ethics Curriculum for Postgraduates in OB-GYN

Yasmin Wajahat

9.45 – 10.15 General Discussion

10.15 – 10.45 Break

10.45 – 11.00 Drama and Ethics

Nadege Nechadi and Valaikanya Plasai

11.00 – 11.15 The Application of PBL (Problem-based Learning) in Bioethics Education

Dena Hsin Chen Hsin

11.15 – 11.30 Perceptions of Management Issues in Biotechnology in Thailand

Siriyupa Roongrerngsuke

25. Initiatives in Bioethics Education in Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Chair: Prof. Farhat Moazam

11.30 – 11.45 Disseminating Biomedical Ethics to Healthcare Professionals: CBEC Programs in Pakistan

Farhat Moazam

11.45 – 12.00 Middle East Research Ethics Training Initiative: A Program to Enhance Research Ethics Capacity in the Middle East

Ibrahim Ramahi

12.00 – 12.15 UNESCO led Initiatives in Bioethics Education in the Region and Implementation of the UNESCO Asia Pacific Conference on Bioethics Education Action Plan

Darryl Macer

12.15 – 12.30 General Discussion

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

26. Environment Ethics and Code of Conducts

Chair: Prof. Jayapaul Azariah

13.30 – 13.45 Concerns for Practicing Environmental Health Issues among Doctors and Patients in Bangladesh

Sanchoy Kumar Chanda

13.45 – 14.00 Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Development

S. Panneerselvam

14.00 – 14.15 Technology and Human Progress: Importance of Negative Feedbacks

Abhik Gupta

14.15 – 14.30 Towards a Code of Conduct for Scientists and Engineers: COMEST and Korea

Song Sang Yong

14.30 – 14.45 General Discussion

14.45 – 15.15 Break

27. Closing Forum and Debates on Future of Asian Bioethics Research

Chairs: Prof. Jayapaul Azariah, Dr. Soraj Hongladarom, Prof. Darryl Macer

15.15 – 17.00 Open Discussion and Recommendations for the Future