by unescobiochair | May 15, 2018 | News

by Giulia Bovassi - How should theology interpret transhumanism? What can be said about the mans relation to God, his spiritual striving, and his self-understanding? These are just some of the questions that emerged during the meeting on Friday April 20 during the...

by Serena Montefusco | May 10, 2018 | News

According to the Cyprus Mail Online, an average of 70,000 people trying to escape the war zones reaching Europe have been stuck in Cyprus, Italy or Spain. These countries share a common path: huge waves of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers who want a better life and...

by Serena Montefusco | Mar 26, 2018 | News

On Monday February 19th, the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights collaborators Serena Montefusco and Kevin Ramirez took part in the event host by BIDA e. V. Kultur and Bildunng, at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Berlin. As part of the eight partners...

by unescobiochair | Mar 16, 2018 | News

By Michael Baggot - The UNESCO Chair of Human Rights and Bioethics hosted a book presentation of Religious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights (Springer Press) on February 22 at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome and the European...

by unescobiochair | Mar 6, 2018 | News

By Giulia Bovassi - Abstract Refined surgical skills and human dexterity are fully manifest in such complex operations as organ transplantations, a difficult intervention and great therapeutic resource. How should we deal with the possibility of a head (or body)...

by unescobiochair | Feb 26, 2018 | News

By Giulia Bovassi - Abstract Neurosciences field of action surprises in depth, involvement and extension, as evidenced during the Interdisciplinary Neuro-bioethics Research Group (GdN) last meeting, held last 9 February, having as its protagonist the hypnotic...

by unescobiochair | Feb 19, 2018 | News

The UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights will hold its 6th international Bioethics, multiculturalism and religion workshop to discuss issues of informed consent and clinical research February 21-23. As part of the i-Consent consortium (a project funded by the...

by unescobiochair | Jan 18, 2018 | News

MASTERCLASS IN NEUROBIOETHICS PSYCHIATRY INTERFACES WITH THE HEAD TRANSPLANTATION IDEA 14 December 2017 By Giulia Bovassi - Abstract Through a dialogue between experts and in an open debate, the intervention of two well-known psychiatrists, professor Armando Piccinni...

by Serena Montefusco | Jan 17, 2018 | News

Prof. Garasic engaged in a discussion on his bookGuantanamo and Other Cases of Enforced Medical Treatment(Springer, 2015)http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319226521has on the Italian Journal "Bioetica -Rivista Interdisciplinare (3;2017; year...

by unescobiochair | Jan 15, 2018 | News

By Dominic Farrell LC - Two professors from the Pontifical AthenaeumRegina Apostolorum, Dominic Farrell LC (Faculty of Philosophy) and Joseph Tham LC (Faculty of Bioethics), took part in an International Workshop onPublic Reason and Bioethicsat Chinese University...

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