November, 9th-10th, at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània of Barcelona. Registration grants available.
The Foundation and the Consorci Universitat Internacional Menéndez Pelayo de Barcelona (CUIMPB) organize the course "Ayuda en el proceso de morir" (Helping to die) next November, 9th and 10th. The aim of this course is analyzing professional help provided to patients within the process of dying and how can this be improved.
The course will go in depth with changes undergoing in society when facing the death. Also it will provide knowledge, communication skills and guidelines to be used at end of life situations.
Registration
www.cuimpb.cat
Registration grants available. Applications must be sent by e-mail to fundacio.grifols@grifols.com, including personal details.
No need to register at CUIMPB University.
Free Election Credits:
Interested to obtain free election credits must address to CUIMPB Students Office. info@cuimpb.cat
Place:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
C/ Montalegre, 5 Barcelona
Ruth Macklin, doctor in philosophy and professor of bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, will be responsible for delivering the 3rd Josep Egozcue Lecture Cycle, to be held on 27 and 28 October at the Institute for Continuing Education of Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona.
Doctor Macklin is a leading authority in bioethics, and combines teaching and research duties, specializing in AIDS and reproductive health in developing countries. She is currently a member of the Ethics Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO), an organization for which she has worked on a number of programs.
Program:
October, 27 at 7.00 pm.Opening lecture:
Printed copies of monographs can be ordered via the Foundation's website, where they can also be downloaded in PDF format.
This will be held in October as part of the 2008-2009 annual awards ceremony
Generic title
Research Involving Human Participants: What are the ethical issues today confronting researchers and research ethics committees?
Lecture 1 (the general lecture):
Unresolved problems in the design and review of research proposals; newer ethical issues raised by advances in medical science and technology
Specialized Lectures:
Multinational Research: Exploitation or benefit in low-resource countries?
For the past decade, bioethics has been exploring concerns that arise when industrialized countries or the pharmaceutical industry conduct clinical trials in developing countries. Is it acceptable to do research with human participants in these countries when the same research could not ethically be conducted in developed countries?
Grey Areas in Research with Human Participants: Determining what is research, what is novel treatment, what is standard of care?
It is sometimes difficult to determine when an activity is research and when it is aimed at improving the quality of care in a hospital setting or when it should be viewed as public health practice rather than public health research. When physicians embark on novel treatments, are the conducting research? Or deviating from the "standard of care"?
This well known health consultant, James Rice, compares management models in the public and private sectors
On July 2, James Rice, president of Integrated Healthcare Strategies, gave a conference at the Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation on ethics in health management models. His speech dealt with different health management companies from the public and private sectors in Catalonia. Also in attendance was Basque Country health minister, Rafael Bengoa.
James Rice organized a practical and interactive session in which he talked about his experiences in the health sector. In his career, he has worked in more than 30 countries in public administration, universities and even private companies.
According to this expert, "no matter which country you examine, people will always be dissatisfied with their health system". According to Rice, it is impossible to establish a clear separation between public and private models because many variations of mixed models coexist. He gave the example of Spain, where each province has its own separate health management model. Throughout his speech, Rice gave various examples to address ethical questions which arise in managing resources and services, and those in attendance participated. The Foundation will publish a synopsis of the conference shortly.
The book offers an in-depth exploration of nursing ethics content.
Edited by Anne Davis, Verena Tschudin and Louis de Raeve, the book also includes the collaboration of several nursing experts.It addresses cross-cultural issues in using specific ethics content. It also reveals the poverty of the present dualism model in nursing ethics and replace this with a more complex and more useful model that invites debate. Its scope is both wide and deep but that is needed to enrich the basis for teaching nursing ethics.
This event will be held on July 2nd at 6 pm at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona
The Fundació Víctor Grífols i Lucas in collaboration with Center of Economics and Health Research of Pompeu Fabra University, organise the lecture: "The Ethics of Public versus Private Management of Healthcare Delivery Systems: Insights and Initiatives", which be held by James A. Rice, Ph.D. Director, Cambridge International Health Leadership Programme de Cambridge, England, under the auspices of Global Health Leadership Forum in Barcelona.
Dr. Guillem López i Casasnovas, member of The Board of Trustees of the Foundation, will chair the lecture.
Place: Sala de Graus-Albert Calsamiglia (40.035), Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona. c/Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27.
Date: 2 July at 6 p.m.
Simultaneous translation into Catalan will be provided.
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Related documents on today calendar
More information:
Global Health Leadership Forum 2009
In 2008 we celebrated the first ten years of the Foundation with the aim of following the study and understanding of ethical issues.
In 2008 we celebrated the first ten years of the Foundation with the aim of following the study and understanding of ethical issues. The annual report includes all the activities done in 2008, as well as the bioethics awards and grants and the new published monographs.
The Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation has launched a new series of publications under the heading Ethical questions
The first title in the collection is ¿Qué hacer con los agresores sexuales reincidentes? [What should we do with persistent sexual offenders?] Published online, it includes the panel discussion and the contributions of Enrique Echeburúa, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of the Basque Country; Mercedes García Arán, Professor of Moral Philosophy of the Autonomous University of Barcelona; José María Mena, Former Chief Public Prosecutor with the High Court of Justice of Catalonia; Joan Carles Navarro, Director of Can Brians Prison and Santiago Redondo Illescas, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Criminology at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Barcelona.
The Victor Grifols i Lucas Foundation recently edited the monographs: The Issue of Patient Competence and Informed Consent and Cultural Diversity.
The Foundation monographs are a collection of publications in Spanish and English which are aimed at making the contents and conclusions of the Foundation's activities available to the public. The Foundation also publishes translations of international documents on bioethics and collaborates with other institutions to make important texts on these subjects more widely available.