Experimentation in Humans - Science, history, politics, ethics and ideologies

May 31, 2016
Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Edgar de Picciotto Family National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (#41)
Ben Gurion Boulevard 4
Beersheba 8410501
Israel

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Ute Deichmann
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Anna Zielinska
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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9:00 Greetings and Opening Remarks

Prof. Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Prof. Ute Deichmann, Director, Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences


I. HISTORY OF MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION

9:15 Michael Alkan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Emeritus Viral Hepatitis and Human Experimentation: A Historical View  

9:40 Nadav Davidovitch, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev From the Laboratory to the Bedside and Beyond - Historical and Ethical Perspectives on Vaccine Experimentation and Policy

10:05 Rainer Erices, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg A Media-Created Scandal Clinical Trials of Western Companies in Eastern Germany GDR

II. NAZI MEDICAL CRIMES AND THEIR IMPACT ON RESEARCH THEREAFTER  

10:35 Volker Roelcke, University of Giessen Human Subject Research during the Nazi Period: Rationalities, Victims, Potential Implications

11:10  COFFEE BREAK

11:35 Etienne Lepicard, Ashkelon Academic College  Israel, Human Research and the Shadow of Nazi Medical Crimes

III. EXPERIMENTATION AND CLINICAL TRIALS AT THE PRESENT TIME

12:05 Motti Gutman, Sheba Medical Center Evidence-based Surgery: Are We Sure We Are Doing the Right Thing

12:35 Asa Kasher, Tel Aviv University Experimentation Involving Conscripts  

13:05 LUNCH  

14:05 Leslie Lobel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Human Sampling and Clinical Trials: A Perspective from the Developing World

14:35 Maureen Malowany, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Medical Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: When the Field Becomes the Laboratory

15:05 Michal Lotem, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center When the Impossible Comes True: How to Deal with Promising Therapies That Are Not Yet Con rmed

15:30 COFFEE BREAK

IV. GENERAL ETHICAL QUESTIONS  

15:50 Ruti Parvari, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Informed Consent in Human Genetic Studies

16:15 Hedva Eyal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Borders, Science and Ethics: Review Boards for Human Medical Experimentation in Israel

16:40 Shlomo Cohen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ambiguities in the Ethics of Consent to Research

17:05-18:00 Round Table Discussion

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May 31, 2016, 5:00am IST

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