2016 World Congress

The 2016 IAB conference took place in Edinburgh. We are delighted to have hosted the following symposia.

Arts+Ethics
“Art + Bioéthique”: Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Art as a Catalyst for Exchanges and Knowledge Transfer

Ethics and regulation of global beauty practices and procedures
Ethics in evidence generation and research during humanitarian responses to public health crises
Ethical challenges in the quest to cure HIV
WHO TB Ethics Guidance Document: The Next Iteration
Implementing ethical guidelines in response to epidemics
Perspectives from the Global South: Perspectives for the Global South: Problematizing Assumptions Underlying the ‘Global South-Global North’ Geographical Imaginary & as to Who is ‘Building Capacity’ or ‘Achieving Competency’ in Global Health and Global Health Ethics Initiatives
Ethical considerations of health databases and biobanks: the open policy-making process of the World Medical Association
Towards the Development of Ethics Guidance for the Conduct and Review of Health Policy and Systems Research

Adam Smith at the Bedside: The Influence of ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments’ in Clinical Bioethics Consultation
How Climate Change Compounds Social Injustice
After Ebola: Challenges facing Infectious Diseases Biobanking
Changing Regimes of Research Ethics Governance: A Comparative Perspective
Developing a Framework for Genomic and Biobanking Research in Africa
Ethical Judgments: Re-Writing Medical Law
UK mitochondrial research and legislation: cutting edge or out on a limb?
Exchanging experiences of dealing with facts and values: STS and bioethics

What is enough? Sufficiency, justice and health
In it together? The role of solidarity in promoting public interests in biomedicine and public health
New Crossroads for Bioethics, Environment, and the Brain Sciences: Environmental Neuroethics
The Ethics of Complex Bodily Exchange
Ethical issues in efforts to expand access to investigational drugs
Consent for secondary use of clinical data for research
What does it mean to regulate in the public interest?