Protecting Children and Decisionally-Impaired Adults
in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Is Bioethics Enough?

Summer Ethics Institute
National Catholic School of Social Service
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
June 6, 2003

Gregor Wolbring, Ph.D.

    Dr. Wolbring is a thalidomider; a research scientist at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Calgary; an Adjunct Assistant Professor (bioethics) at the Department of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, Faculty of Education, at the University of Calgary; and an Adjunct Professor at the John Dossetor Health Ethics Center at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is the founder and coordinator of the International Network on Bioethics and Disability--a network supported by the International Association for Bioethics--and the founder and director of the International Center for Bioethics, Culture and Disability. He was recently appointed to the executive of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.

For more information, see his webpage http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org

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