Programme
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Join us at Uppsala University's Campus Blåsenhus on 10-11 June 2024!
Day 1, Monday 10 June
08.15-09.00
Registration, lobby
09.00-09.15
Welcome address & organisational details
Room: Bertil Hammersalen, Niklas Juth & Stefan Eriksson
09.15-10.00
Anna Smajdor keynote: Who needs intrafamilial reproduction?
Room: Bertil Hammersalen, Chair: Niklas Juth
10.00-10.30
Coffee break
10.30-12.30
Parallell session 1
Justice & medical ethics
Room: Bertil Hammersalen
Chair: Niklas Juth
10.30-10.48
Ulrik Kihlbom, Karolinska Institutet: “Does scarcity in health resources change ethical obligations?”
10.50-11.08
Viola Tognoni, KU Leuven: “Underestimation of pain in women - epistemic injustice and gender bias”
11.10-11.28
Liam Strand, Linköping University: “Finding a Justified Approach to Withdrawing and Withholding Treatments in Healthcare Rationing”
11.30-11.48
Erik Gustavsson, Linköping University: “Priority to the worse off and diagnostic measures”
11.50-12.08
Camilla Lyckblad, Uppsala University: “The living document”
Empirical ethics
Room: Betty Petterssonsalen
Chair: Jens Lundegård
10.30-10.48
Filip Jonsson, Karolinska Institutet: “Views and experiences on enabling physician-assisted suicide among Swedish physicians”
10.50-11.08
Åsa Grauman, Uppsala University: “Perceptions of lifestyle-related risk communication in patients with cancer– a qualitative interview study”
11.10-11.28
Jamie Webb, University of Edinburgh: “Patient and transplant staff experiences with liver transplantation: ethical analysis of interviews”
11.30-11.48
Susanna Pohjola, Uppsala University: “Ethical Challenges Among Dietitians when Prescribing Oral Nutritional Supplements”
11.50-12.08
Iona Aylwin, University of Nottingham: “The Ethical Reasoning of Parents Who Continue Pregnancy After a Prenatal Diagnosis of Down’s Syndrome”
12.10-12.28
Vasileios Nittas, University of Zürich: “Equitable digital health interventions through cultural adaptions: Current practice and challenges”
12.30-13.28
Lunch
13.30-14.50
Parallell session 2
Neuroethics
Room: Bertil Hammersalen
Chair: Kathinka Evers
13.30-13.48
Michele Farisco, Uppsala University: “Why should neuroethics strive for crossing cultural boundaries”
13.50-14.08
Manuel Guerrero, Uppsala University: “The quest of neuroprotection through neurorights. Disciplinary and practical challenges”
14.10-14.28
Jan Šteff, Charles University: “Discourse Ethics on the Background of Mirror Neuron Theory as a Possible Contribution to Bioethical Principles”
14.30-14.48
Jonathan Andrew, Geneva Academy: “Neurotechnologies and Human Rights Protection”
Research ethics: Africa
Room: Betty Petterssonsalen
Chair: Stefan Eriksson
13.30-13.48
Ruth Victoria Nagawa, Uganda Cancer Institute: “Research participants’ perspectives on compensation for participation among cancer patients”
13.50-14.08
Francis Masiye: “Ethical aspects of broad consent and the use of samples and data collected in biomedical research in Malawi and South Africa”
14.10-14.28
Ajayi Timothy, Ogun State Institute of Technology: “Enhancing Ethical Standards in Scientific Research Publications: Insights from Nigeria”
14.50-15.13
Coffee break
15.15-16.35
Parallell session 3
AI, ethics & law
Room: Bertil Hammersalen
Chair: Ulrik Kihlbom
15.15-15.33
Björn Lundgren, Freidrich-Alexander-Universität: “Transparency demands and the justified usage of AI in healthcare”
15.35-15.53
Lukas Meier, University of Cambridge: “Can ChatGPT do medical ethics?”
15.55-16.13
Sarah de Heer, Lund University: “How to ensure that AI medical devices in precision medicine achieve the required quality of care in Sweden?”
16.15-16.33
Petra Müllerová, Lund University: “Ensuring Ethical AI in Healthcare for Health Applications Users: Unpacking WHO Principles in Light of the AI Act”
Autonomy & coersion
Room: Betty Petterssonsalen
Chair: William Bülow O’Nils
15.15-15.33
Antoinette Lundahl, Karolinska Institutet: “Suicide-preventive compulsory admission not a proportionate measure - time to recognise the associated risks”
15.35-15.53
Sawitri Saharso, VU Amsterdam: “Patient autonomy under coercive conditions: GPs’ and migrant women’s moral dilemmas”
15.55-16.13
Lisa Forsberg, University of Oxford: “Vaccination, purpose, and permissibility”
16.15-16.33
Isra Black, University College London: “More varied and principled understandings of autonomy in health law”
18.30
Dinner
Day 2, Tuesday 11 June
08.45-09.00
Registration for new arrivals, lobby
09.00-09.45
Mats Hansson keynote: The normative and the empirical – two operations of thought in bioethics
Room: Bertil Hammersalen, Chair: Stefan Eriksson
09.45-09.58
Coffee break
10.00-12.00
Parallell session 4
Relationship theory & practice in medical ethics
Room: Bertil Hammersalen
Chair: Gert Helgesson
10.00-10.18
Anna Hirsch, University of Munich: “Philo-conceptual competences’ contribution to medical ethics: conflicts between autonomy and well-being”
10.20-10.38
Joona Räsänen, University of Turku: “50 years of killing and letting die: On the limits of philosophical bioethics”
10.40-10.58
Joar Björk & Thomas Hartvigsson, Uppsala University and Göteborg University: “Teaching the beneficence principle”
11.00-11.18
Isabelle Billstein, Karolinska Institutet: “Ethics support staff’s perceptions of patient and parent participation in clinical ethics support”
11.20-11.38
Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen, University of Southern Denmark: “A pluralistic use of moral theories in bioethics: cases on moral distress”
11.40-11.58
Adam Ehlert, Uppsala University: “The currency of severity”
Current issues in medical ethics
Room: Betty Petterssonsalen
Chair: Erik Gustavsson
10.00-10.18
Lars Lindblom, Linköping University: “Risk, Polycrisis, and Top Hazards”
10.20-10.38
Andrew Webb, University Hospital Southampton: “Analysis of the Ethics of Critical Care Resource allocation during the initial COVID-19 Pandemic”
10.40-10.58
Mirko Ancillotti, Uppsala University: “Development of a public health ethics framework for lighting”
11.00-11.18
Cara Swain, Karolinska Institutet: “Considering the ethics of ‘live tissue training’ in trauma surgery”
11.20-11.38
Sezen Demirham, University of Athens: “Being a living organ donor: A study on women’s experiences”
12.00-12.58
Lunch
13.00-13.45
Jonathan Pugh keynote: Fairness and the Future of Health and Life Insurance
Room: Bertil Hammersalen, Chair: Niklas Juth
13.50-14.50
Parallell session 5
Gene-ethics
Room: Bertil Hammersalen
Chair: Niklas Juth
13.50-14.08
Magnus Falk, Linköping University: ”Ethical aspects of altering the processes of natural ageing”
14.10-14.28
Lisa Dive, University of Technology Sydney: “How does the severity of a genetic condition affect the utility of knowing about it?”
Research ethics: Europe
Room: Betty Petterssonsalen
Chair: Stefan Eriksson
13.50-14.08
Gert Helgesson, Karolinska Institutet: “Is it wrong to recycle conference contributions?”
14.10-14.28
Anna Clareborn, Uppsala University: “Participation in Health Tech-Based Medical Research - On Compound Burdens and Engulfment”
14.30-14.48
Kristina Hug, Lund University: “First-in-human clinical trials and participant safety: What’s on and off the table in existing guidance?”
14.50-15.18
Coffee break
15.20-16.00
Parallell session 6
Children & medical ethics
Room: Bertil Hammersalen
Chair: Adam Ehlert
15.20-15.38
William Bülow O’Nils, Uppsala University: “The best interest of the child: a proposal for a taxonomy of an unclear moral principle”
15.40-15.58
Marta Szabat, Jagiellonian University: ”Enhancing Parental Trust in Pediatric Palliative Care”
Autonomy & authenticity
Room: Betty Petterssonsalen
Chair: Gert Helgesson
15.20-15.38
Hoda Hosseiny, Lund University: “Identity-Based Interpretation of ‘Will and Preferences’ in Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities”
15.40-15.58
Jenny Lindberg, Lund University: “Framing of patient information - an obstacle to shared decision-making and authentic patient choice”
16.05-16.15
Final words & closing
Room: Bertil Hammersalen, Niklas Juth & Stefan Eriksson