Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
EACME Conference 2008 'Organizing Bioethics: Challenges for Western, Central and Eastern Europe', Praha, Çek Cumhuriyeti, 25 - 27 Eylül 2008
EACME Conference 2008
25-27 September 2008
– Prague, Czech Republic
'Organizing Bioethics: Challenges for Western, Central and Eastern Europe'
Oral Paper Abstract
The Turkish Bioethics Association, with Future Vision in Historical Perspective
Yesim
Isil Ulman
The Turkish Bioethics Association was founded
in Ankara in 1994. The idea of founding a bioethics society in Turkey was put
forward by Prof. Yaman Ors and Dr. Yasemin Oguz, the prominent ethicists in
Turkey, on their way back from the Inaugural Bioethics Conference at Amsterdam. First steps to the Association was taken by
academic circles of medical ethics, veterinary medicine ethics,
dentistry ethics. Prof. Berna Arda and Dr. Serap Sahinoglu worked diligently to
institutionalize the Association just from its establishment. In a short while,
the Association, gathered together not only the medical ethicists from the
academy, but also the leading authors of ethics, history and philosophy with
young MA and PhD researchers from the allied disciplines all over Turkey.
Turkish
Bioethics Association is a platform to take up, to debate the problems arising
in bioethics in Turkey or elsewhere by searching solutions in an
interdisciplinary structure. The objective of the Association as it
is mentioned in its Bylaws is to contribute to the development and education of
bioethics and to improve its connections with healthcare disciplines as well as
other related areas.
Turkish
Bioethics Association (TBA) organizes
bi-annual symposia on bioethics, and since 2001 has also been holding national
congress of medical ethics, as well as courses on and conferences on certain
bioethical issues. TBA sets sup ad hoc
committees to work on specific points of discussion such as stem cell researches
and trials, and attaches importance to prepare statements on the foremost ethical
problems in Turkey at clinical settings such as Informed Consent, Patient
Rights, Biomedical Research Ethics.
The Association
has published a number of boks, mostly the proceedings of symposia and congresses.
It has recently issued a handbook on The
Ethical Dimension of Transformation of Health Affairs in Turkey compiling
the symposium debates on the matter in a critical viewpoint. A group of members
of TBA have recently fulfilled the Turkish translation of the Establishing Bioethics Committees by Prof. Henk ten Have, and the Turkish Branch of UNESCO with
which TBA works in cooperation, is going to publish the Handbook soon.
Turkish
Bioethics Association has been preparing to hold a congress in November 2008,
and has chosen the main theme as “From Medical Ethics to Bioethics” heading for
a broader perspective to discuss the main problematics in ethics, biomedicine,
healthcare, ethical philosophy and law with international contributions, in
accordance with its future vision and liabilities.