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*INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP*
*Bioethics and Human Temporality*
*Perspectives from the Beginning, Middle and End of Life*
*Date: *27-28.5.2019
*Venue: *Schlaues Haus Oldenburg
*Organizers:*
Prof. Dr. Mark Schweda
(University of Oldenburg, School of Medicine and Health Sciences,
Department of Health Services Research)
Dr. Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty
(University Medical Center Göttingen, Dept. of Medical Ethics and History
of Medicine)
The role of temporality in bioethical debates has long been neglected: What
does it mean for bioethical reasoning that life is lived, experienced, and
understood as a process in time with fundamental temporal characteristics
such as directedness, irreversibility, or finality? What does it mean that
life is traditionally interpreted in terms of a particular temporal
structure and extension, including a sequence of phases or stages connected
to different social roles, norms and expectations? What does it mean that
certain medical interventions and accompanying moral questions and
conflicts focus on particular points in life?
The lack of reflection on the relevance of human temporality becomes
particularly salient in ethical discussions at the beginning and end of
life. Many bioethical discussions on the beginning of life rest on moral
assumptions about the development of human existence over time. An example
are the debates on prenatal diagnosis and abortion and the underlying
models of phases of fetal development, or the bioethical discussions on
informed consent and proxy decision making in the treatment of neonates.
Bioethical debates on reproduction also exemplify the importance of
temporality. For example, the common metaphor of the “biological clock”
encompasses concerns about (reproductive) ageing and the finality of
women’s reproduction. Finally, medical interventions in the fields of
geriatric medicine and biogerontology promote more ambitious standards of
health, fitness, and functionality for later life and challenge common
views of aging and the life course.
This international and interdisciplinary workshop is dedicated to the role
and relevance of temporality for ethical reasoning in the field of
biomedicine, healthcare, and the life sciences at the beginning, middle and
end of life. It aims to develop a more concrete, empirically informed and
culturally sensitive perspective on bioethics and human temporality. Talks
by Claudia Bozzaro (Freiburg), Nolwenn Bühler (Lausanne/Neuchâtel), Limor
Meoded Danon (Jerusalem), Jozef Dorscheidt (Groningen), Naomi Gershoni
(Beer-Sheva), Solveig Lena Hansen (Göttingen), Julia Perry (Göttingen),
Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty (Göttingen), Ari Schick (Jerusalem), Mark Schweda
(Oldenburg) & Karin Jongsma (Utrecht) (for program, see
https://uol.de/medizinethik/workshop-bioethics-and-human-temporality/).
Due to limited space, registration is required by *May 7th, 2019*. Please
register via email: [log in to unmask]
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ד"ר ניצן רימון-צרפתי
Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty, Ph.D
Phone: +49-1525-5800650
Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
University Medical Centre Gottingen
E-mail address: [log in to unmask]
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