MEDICAL ETHICS: ISSUES FOR THE 21st CENTURY

SUNDAY, JUNE 14

9:00  AM   Opening Proceedings
           Julius Landwirth, MD,JD
           Director, Health Care Development Programs Albert Schweitzer Institute

9:30     The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer: Personal Rememberances
         Richard Friedman, MD, Switzerland

10:00    Patient Rights in Europe: The World Health Organization
         Report, Miko Vienonen, PhD, MD , WHO

10:45    Patient Rights in Hungary: Experience of an Ombudsman
         Eszter Kismodi, JD, PhD, Hungary

11:30    Discussion

12:00    Lunch
 
 

SESSION ON  RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN HEALTH CARE: ETHICAL, POLITICAL ECONOMIC AND CLINICAL ASPECTS

Chair: Thomas Halper, PhD
       Dep't of Political Science,
       City University of New York, USA

1:00  Justice and Health Care: The Russian Perspective
        Pavel Tishchenko, PhD,
        Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences

1:45  Discussion

2:00  Ethical Issues in Resource Allocation: The View from Slovakia
      Josef Glasa, MD, PhD, Institute of Medical Ethics and Bioethics

2:45  Discussion

3:00   Ethical and Political Considerations in Resource Allocation
       Thomas Halper, PhD

3:45   Discussion

4:00   Concurrent workshops

5:00   Workshop reporters meeting with faculty leader
 

MONDAY, JUNE 15

SESSION ON GENETICS, ETHICS AND THE LAW
Session Chair:  John A. Balint, MD
                Director, Center for Medical Ethics,Education and
                Research, Albany, USA

9:00  Major Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Genetics
      Carlos M.R. Casabona, MD, JD
      Director, Project on Human Rights and the Human Genome
      University de Duesto,  Spain

9:45   Discussion

10:00   Limiting Access to Genetic Information : Diverse Values in a Pluralistic Society
        Mary Ann G. Cutter, PhD
        Dep't of Philosophy,University of Colorado, US

10:45   Discussion
 

11:00    Medical and Eugenic Interventions in Human Genetics: Russian Public Opinion
         Pavel Tishchenko , PhD
         Boris Yudin, PhD   Institute of Human Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

11:45    Discussion

12:00   The New Genetics: Public Health Opportunities and Ethical  Challenges,
            John A. Balint, MD

12:45   Discussion

Lunch

2:00  World Health Organization Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights
        (  SPEAKER TO BE CONFIRMED )

2:45  Discussion

3:00  Concurrent workshops

4:30  Workshop reporters meet with faculty leaders
 

TUESDAY, JUNE 16

SESSION:  DECISIONS AT THE END OF LIFE

Session Chair:  Henk ten Have, PhD, MD
                Dep't of Ethics,Philosophy and History of Medicine,
                Catholic University, Netherlands

9:00  Ethical and Legal Aspects of Decisions at the End of Life: The U.S Experience
      Wayne Shelton, PhD Center for Medical Ethics, Education and Research,  Albany Medical College, US

9:45  Discussion

10:00  Decisions at the End of Life:  The Hungarian Experience
       Bela Blassszauer, JD, PhD, Division of Medical Ethics
       Medical University of Pecs, Hungary

10:45  Discussion

11:00   The Right to Refuse Treatment and to Seek Assistance in Dying
       Judit Sandor, JD, Central European University, Hungary

11:45   Discussion

12:00   Ethical Aspects of Palliative Care,    Henk ten Have, PhD,MD

12:45   Discussion

Lunch
 

2:00  Concurrent Workshops

3:30  Workshop reporters meet with faculty leaders
 

WEDNESADAY, JUNE 17

SESSION ON PROTECTING HUMAN RESEARCH SUBJECTS; ETHICAL, REGULATORY AND MEDICAL DIMENSIONS

Session Chair:  Stuart F. Spicker,PhD
                Massachusetts College of Pharmacy,  US

9:00  Ethical Issues in Genetic Research
      Jon Merz, MD, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

9:45  Discussion

10:00  Ethical Issues in Human Experimentation:  The European Experience
       Josef Glasa, MD, PhD

10:45  Discussion

11:00  Norms and Realitites in Human Experimenation in Russia
       Boris Yudin, PhD

11:45  Discussion

12:00  What's Happened to Informed Consent in Human Experimentation: The Incremental and Precarious Transition form Nuremberg Fundamentalism
       Stuart F. Spicker, PhD

12:45  Discussion

Lunch
 

2:00   concurrent workshops

3:30   workshop reporters meet with faculty leaders
 
 

THURSDAY, JUNE 18

PANEL DISCUSSION BY WORKSHOP REPORTERS

9:00  Panel Discussion on Ethical Issues in Resource Allocation

9:45  Panel Discussion on  Ethical Issues in Genetics

10:30 Panel Discussion   on  Ethical Issues in Decisions at the End
      of Life

11:15  Panel Discussion  on Ethical Issues in Human Experimentation

12:00  Closing Proceedings,   Julius Landwirth, MD,JD