October 29, 2008

All set to go

All set to go. The Ninth Asian Bioethics Conference will take 5 (five) working days, with 25 sessions and 95 papers and 3 (three) keynote speeches by 3 (three) Ministers of the Republic of Indonesia: (1) State Minister for Research and Technology, (2) Minister of Health, and (3) Minister of Agriculture. All in plenary.Discussion topics are among others: “enhancement and neuroethics”, “public health ethics”, “organ transplant ethics”, “environmental ethics”, “ethics of energy technologies”, “ethics and disasters”, "Islamic bioethics”, and “bioethics education”.

The papers reflect the theme of the conference. In the words of Nir Eyal, an Assistant Professor in Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School Division of Medical Ethics: “... the conference looks most intriguing – many perspectives that never reach the Harvard Medical School ! I would very much like to attend, if I can: unfortunately, I am out of travel budget for the year. ...”.

The ABC9 Organizer would like to thank all the national and international participants for submitting their valuable works and sharing their knowledge and experience. It is an honour and privilege for us to host you in Yogyakarta. We hope that you enjoy your stay here, and leave Yogyakarta and Indonesia with sweet memories. Thank you very much.

ABC-9 is organized jointly by the National Bioethics Commission (KBN), The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), The State Islamic University of Sunan Kalijaga, The Asian Bioethics Association (ABA), and the Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP) of UNESCO Bangkok. It is also supported by the State Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, and Gadjah Mada University (UGM).

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