First UNESCO Bangkok Bioethics Roundtable (BBRT1)
Date: 11-15 September 2005
Venue: Imperial Tara Hotel, Bangkok
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Publication of proceedings is underway, expected in second half of 2006.
Background
The purpose of this meeting was to engage in an interactive dialogue over the priorities for bioethics and ethics of science and technology in Asia and the Pacific, with global implications. How can we apply bioethics declarations and international agreements to enhance the realities of communities across a divided and diverse world? As we develop networks of researchers and policymakers we are bringing together persons from over 30 countries and a wide range of specialties for this roundtable as a further step in the reflection and action on ethics of science and technology.
In order to encourage group interaction, at this meeting 150 experts attended in their individual capacity, and participants presented papers (maximum 10 minute talks followed by similar time on informal Q&A in a roundtable discussion). Referenced versions of the accepted full papers will be published after the meeting.
Agenda
Sunday, 11 September
8:00-9:00am Registration
9:00-10:30am
1. Opening and UNESCO Ethics Programmes
Sheldon Shaeffer, Director, UNESCO Bangkok- Welcome
Prapon Walairat (Thailand) - Implementation of the Bangkok Declaration on the Ethics of Science and Technology
Darryl Macer – Overview of UNESCO Ethics Programmes
Song Sang-yong, Vice-Chair, COMEST (South Korea) – The COMEST
10:45-12:30am
2. History and Practice of Ethics of Science and Technology
Renzong Qiu (China) – Confucianism and Its Implications for Bioethics: Tradition and Modernity in China
Shinryo Shinagawa (Japan) – Bioethics in a Wider and Probably Original Sense
Suliana Siwatibau (Fiji) - Ethical Dimensions For Sustaining Pacific Island Environments
Jeong-Ro Yoon(South Korea) - Wither the ELSI program in Korea?
Mohammad Hasan Ghadiani (Iran) - Islamic Codes in Medical Ethics
13:30-17:00pm
3. Bioethics Education in Schools across Asia and the Pacific
D.S. Nesy (India) - Indian Ethics and Contemporary Bio-ethical Issues
Lindsey N. Conner (New Zealand) - The Importance of Knowledge Development in Bioethics Education
P. Senthil Kumaran et al. (India) - Teaching Moral Values For High School Students – Indian Context
Ester Abito and MaryAnn Chen Ng (the Philippines) – Bioethics Education Trials in the Philippines
Duangkamol Chartprasert (Thailand) - Internet Self-efficacy and Student-centered Learning in a Thai Secondary Schools
Liping Wang et al. (China) - This Year’s Flowers Are Redder than Last Year - A Brief Introduction of the Bioethics Project in the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University in the Past Two Years
Fu Jinhua (presented by Zhen Zheng) - The Actualities and Prospects of Bioethics Education in a Chinese Middle School
Jianzhi Li (China) - To treasure your life, refuse drug
Yuan Yu (China) - Teaching About Organ Donation and Organ Transplants
Dr. M. Selvanayagam and Fr. Francis P. Xavier (India) - Environmental Education and Ecoethics- Current Trends in Education
M. A. Jothi Rajan et al. (India) - Value Education: A Treasure of a Nation
Arockiam Thaddeus et al. (India) - Can Formal Education Promote Beneficence?[poster]
D.S. Sheriff (India) - Perspective on The Role of Sex Education in the changing cultural scenario and psyche of Indian Personae in the 21st Century
Muhammad Nizam Awang @ Ali (Malaysia) - Consulting the Public in the Setting of Bioethics : Regulatory Framework and Policy in Malaysia
17:00-19:00pm Welcome reception
Monday, 12 September
8:30-12:00am 4. Environmental ethics
Elise Huffer and Tui Rakuita (Fiji) - Land and people as the measure: A Pacific ethic of place and prudence
Mary Ann Chen Ng (Japan/the Philippines) - Anthropocentrism isn’t a dirty word: reflections on nature and life at the margins
Abhik Gupta (India) - From Biosphere to Technosphere to Biotechnosphere: the Indian Scenario in an Eco-Ethical Perspective
Nat Tuivavalagi (Samoa) - Learning from our forefathers: A foundation for bioethics in the Pacific islands – with emphasis on issues relating to agriculture and the environment
Fakrul Islam and Wardatul Akmam (Bangladesh) - Ethical Aspects of Using International Rivers: Some Policy Proposals for Optimal Sharing of Teesta River Water
Jan Wawrzyniak (Poland) - Theoretical Foundations of Neonaturalistic Environmental Bioethics
Aruna Sivakami (India) - Can education in environmental ethics alone solve problems of loss of biodiversity in Developing Countries
Morgan Pollard (Australia) - Spreading the Wings of Bioethics: Issues of Scale and Priority
Wardatul Akmam et al. (Bangladesh) - Inculcation of Environment-friendly Ethics as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development in Bangladesh
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00pm 5. Ethics of High Technology
John Weckert (Australia) – Should the precautionary principle be applied to nanotechnology
Irina Pollard (Australia) – Advances in Neuroscience and the Precautionary Principle: What Can Bioscience-Bioethics Teach Us?
Mary Vimalakumari Kalaiarasi and Selvanayagam (India) - Sensory Abilities Beyond Human
Mary Josephine Rani and M. Selvanayagam (India) – Benefits and ethical limits of transgenic animals
Pornvipa W. Chanakool (Thailand) - Science, Technology and the Supernatural in Contemporary Thai Novels
John Buckeridge (New Zealand) - Applying Ethics in a Professional context: what can we hope to solve?
Ivo Kwon (South Korea) - The current state of embryonic stem cell research in Korea
Jasdev Rai(U.K.) - Gender Foeticide: Exploring Beyond Medical Ethics
15:15-18:00pm 6. Ethics and Policy across the Pacific and Asia
Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop (Samoa) - Is there a ‘greater good?’ Ethics policies in the Pacific
Samantha M.C. Pang (Hong Kong) and Michiko Yahiro (Japan) - How do Chinese and Japanese patients characterize the good nurse? A cross-cultural study of virtue ethics
Paungphen Choonhapran (Thailand) - Bioethical issues in intensive care nursing
Alireza Bagheri (Iran) and Ryuichi Ida (Japan) - Controversy over Medical Futility
Siriphen Piriyachittakornkit (Thailand) - A Conception Risk in Decision-Making
Nares Damrongchai(Thailand) - DNA Technology in Asia-Pacific: Scenario for 2015
A.D. Valsala and M. Selvanayagam (India) - Awaiting Liberation of Animals from Experimental Clutches?
Masato Motoki (Japan) - Observations on ESD, animal rights and culture
Mary Vimalakumari Kalaiarasi and Selvanayagam (India) - Animal Rides and Ethics
18:00-21:00 Cultural Evening - Following a buffet sit-down meal participants are invited to present a short song, story, play, etc. to look at cultural diversity
Tuesday, 13 September
8:30-12:00am 7. Medical ethics and education
Noritoshi Tanida (Japan) - Ethical views of first-year medical and nursing students in a joint bioethics course
Subrata Chattopadhyay (Nepal) - An Earnest Appeal: We Need Spirituality in Medical Education
Aamir Jafarey and Farhat Moazam (Pakistan) - Bioethics Education in Pakistan: Challenges and Prospects
Anoja Fernando (Sri Lanka) – Bioethics Education in Sri Lanka: the Current Status
Juraporn Pongwecharak (Thailand) - Progress Report: Development of case study materials for teaching research ethics
Sr. Daphne Furtado and Karuna Ramesh Kumar (India) - Ethics in Paramedical Studies- Mapping A New Agenda
Dena Hsin Hsin-Chen (Taiwan) - To Accomplish the Life Education Mission through Having Bioethics Courses in Medical School
Heiko Ulrich Zude (Germany) - Biomedical Ethics Education in post-communist Eastern Germany
A. Nalini and G. Srinivas (India) - Ethics Education in Medical Curriculum: Interns’ perspectives
Maude Phipps (Malaysia) - Bioethics Education in Tertiary Settings – The University of Malaya Experience
Brief introduction to the UNESCO GEO database
12:00-13:00pm Lunch
13:00-17:00pm 8. Bioethics for All and South-South Dialogues
Soraj Hongladarom (Thailand) - The Study of Bioethics and Interdisciplinarity
Jayapaul Azariah and Preethi Azariah (India) - Responses to Bioethics education Across Cultures – A survey to assess the bioethical need across Social Strata in Tamil Nadu, India
Blaise Bikandou (Congo) - Impulse of ethical research in life science and health systems as foundation of development in Sub-Saharan Africa
M. K. Tadjudin (Indonesia) – Ethical Issues in the Face of Scarce Resources
Tran Han Giang (Vietnam) - Challenges for gender studies in the era of ever-growing development of biology
Kwami Christophe Dikenou (Togo) - The Teaching of The Ethics of Science and Technology in African Universities
Aroha Te Pareake Mead (New Zealand) - A Maori Perspective on the Principle of Informed Consent
M Mahmud Hossain et al. (Bangladesh) - Informed Consent in Health Research: Current State of Knowledge among Physicians in Bangladeshi Perspective
Ken Daniels (New Zealand) –Governance of Donor Insemination
Miyako Okada-Takagi (Japan) - Is the era of the therapy by tailor-made stem cell coming?
(Evening - Textbook project meeting; others free)
Wednesday, 14 September
(all day include session 9 and field visit at Kasertsart University - Kamphaeng Saen Campus)
9. Biotechnology and Bioethics
7am leave Bangkok by bus from lobby of Tara Hotel to Kasetsart University-Kamphangsaen campus
9:30 Introduction to examples of plant and animal biotechnology research
Kanokwan Romayanon (Thailand) - GM papaya for PRSV resistance
Parichart Burns (Thailand) - GM papaya for delayed ripening
Wichai Kositratana (Thailand) - Biosafety study of GM-papaya in Thailand.
Pahol Kosiyachinda (Thailand) - The Transgenic Thai Papaya Story – A Milestone of Thailand toward a Biotech Crop Country
Voravit Siripholvat (Thailand) - Description of Thai indigenous chicken plumage colour and broodiness using classical and molecular genetics
Don Chalmers (Australia) – Is there a Need or Space for Gene Technology Ethics: An Australian Perspective
Ellen M Kittson (Australia) – Victorian Governance of Biotechnology
Lunch
Field site visits
The participants will be divided into 2 groups (approximately 40 for each group)
Group I : go to AVRDC (Dr.Julapark and Dr. Peerasak-contact person) and Biocontrol facility of Department of Plant Pathology (Dr.Chiradej-contact person)
Group II : go to Plant Research Group-BIOTEC to visit GM-papaya research (Dr.Orawan-contact person)
Group I and Group II go to the other sites.
3:30pm come back to main room for a combined session again
Kazuo Watanabe et al. (Japan) - Ethics in Public Communication on Agricultural Biotechnology
Minakshi Bhardwaj (U.K.) - Constituting ethics into biotechnology policies and developing international relations.
Mary Saral and M. Selvanayagam (India) – Benefits and Ethical Limits of Biotechnology
Tomiko Yamaguchi (Japan) - An Analytical Framework for Understanding Agricultural Biotechnology Controversies
Discussion on the field trip
5.00 pm Leave the campus for dinner at Nakhon Pathom
Thursday, 15 September
8:30-11:00am 10. Public health and ethics of research
Darryl Macer(New Zealand) – Ethics of use of genetic control methods for infectious disease
Naoko Kimura and Darryl Macer (Japan) - Gauging attitudes towards genetically modified mosquitoes
Xiaomei Zhai (China) - Research Ethics in China: History, Status quo and Issues
M Al Mamun et al. (Bangladesh) - Current State of Research Ethics in Developing Countries: Where Do We Stand?
Mihaela Serbulea (Romania) – Utilization of traditional knowledge and support of access to health
William L. Aldis (WHO) - Recruitment of subjects for clinical research from low-income countries: a critical analysis
11:00am-17:00pm (Lunch 12:00-13:00)
11. Governance Models for Genetic and Reproductive Technology
Don Chalmers (Australia) - The Regulation of Stem Cell Technology: International Approaches to Restriction or Permission
Leonardo D. de Castro, Vice-Chair, International Bioethics Committee (the Philippines)- Informed Consent: An Essential Requirement for Essential Health Research
Derek Morgan (U.K.) - Recent comparative approaches to assisted conception and embryo research laws
Yanguang Wang (China) - Ethical Issues on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in China
Somparn Promta (Thailand) - What are the points in human cloning debate? A view from Buddhism
Jürgen Simon (Germany) - Biobanking and Ethnic Monitoring
Brigitte Jansen (Germany) – International Comparisons of Regulation of Biobanks
Le Dinh Luong (Vietnam) - Some Thoughts about Implementation of International Bioethics Declarations in Vietnam Practice
Chan Chee Khoon (Malaysia) - Market-driven Biomedical Research: A Major Challenge to Everyday Bioethics
Irene J. Taafaki (Marshall Islands) - Avoiding biopiracy? Protecting Medicinal Knowledge and Plants"
17:00-17:15pm 12. Closing Remarks