Protecting Children and Decisionally-Impaired Adults

in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Is Bioethics Enough?

    Four provocative papers will be presented to address the major ethical challenges that confront biomedical and behavioral researchers and the professions of social work, psychology, medicine, nursing, and law in their work with children and decisionally-impaired adults. Seemingly daily breakthroughs in the biological sciences and associated technology offer hope of curing disease and extending life itself. The demand for human research subjects is fast increasing along with pressure on government regulatory and oversight agencies to ease the rules governing the use of humans in biomedical and behavioral research.

    The one-day ethics institute will follow a point/counter-point/rejoinder format with each author taking 30 to 35 minutes to present a main paper, followed by a 15 to 20 minute reaction by an expert reactor and a brief rejoinder by the author. Two papers will be presented and discussed in the morning session, 9 a.m. to 12 noon, and two in the afternoon session, 1 to 4 p.m. The main papers will be distributed in advance to institute subscribers to facilitate their active participation as discussants
immediately following the author and reactor exchange.

    Conference enrollment is limited to 200 with the participation fee of $50 kept purposely low to promote affordability. Varying numbers of continuing education units (CEUs)--depending on the number of hours of attendance--will be offered for social workers, psychologists, nurses and physicians. Late enrollment and CEU application will take place 8:30 to 9 a.m. on Friday, June 6, 2003. Coffee, tea, soda and light refreshments will be provided prior to the 9 a.m. session and during the morning and afternoon breaks. A box lunch will be served at 12 noon.

NOTE: THIS INSTITUTE IS ENTIRELY SUPPORTED BY PARTICIPATION FEES AND
HAS RECEIVED NO FUNDING SUPPORT FROM ANY SOURCE THAT MIGHT
CREATE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.

Enrollment Application

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