2006 - Page 4 of 5 - World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research

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6 February 2006

John Harris: The Obligations of Society to Science
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6 February 2006

Krishna B. Garg: Do Globalisation and Modern Scientific Developments Pose New Challenges for the Society!
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6 February 2006

Demetrio Neri: the Italian debate and legislation in a European perspective
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6 February 2006

Charles H. Baron: Legal Methodologies for Maximizing Freedom of Scientific Research
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3 February 2006

Stem cell obscurantism
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31 January 2006

Breaking new ground on fractures
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27 January 2006

The United Nations and Therapeutic Cloning
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6 January 2006

Final Programme of the Founding Session of the World Congress
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6 January 2006

Concept paper founding session (2004)

Research and Self Determination Index

The Research and Self-Determination Index measures the degree of freedom to investigate human biology and to exercise self-determination with regard to our bodies.
Expanding medical knowledge through research, enhancing patients’ well-being through medical treatment, and securing the best available treatment are universal aspirations shared by researchers, health care professionals and patients around the globe.
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Abortion

Abortion and contraception allow women to express their freedom of reproduction by exercising their right of self-determination over their bodies.
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Assisted reproduction

Access to assisted reproduction concerns our ability to expand our freedom of reproduction by offering us the opportunity to have children notwithstanding infertility.
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End of Life

End of life decisions concern our ability to make choices concerning the end of our lives and take of the form of refusal of life sustaining treatment, being help in committing suicide, choosing euthanasia, and make choices that must be upheld even when the person becomes unconscious.
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GM Crops

GM crops have contributed significantly to modern agriculture. Plant breeding using genetic modification techniques has led to improving crops in more targeted ways than classical breeding techniques.
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Research with embryo

Research with embryos and pre-embryos as well as therapeutic cloning concerns scientists’ freedom to investigate human biology as well as patients’ freedom to access regenerative medicine treatments that may be developed as a result of research with human embryonic stem cells.
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Right to science

The human right to science is recognized in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 15(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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John Harris: The Obligations of Society to Science

Krishna B. Garg: Do Globalisation and Modern Scientific Developments Pose New Challenges for the Society!

Demetrio Neri: the Italian debate and legislation in a European perspective

Charles H. Baron: Legal Methodologies for Maximizing Freedom of Scientific Research

Stem cell obscurantism

Breaking new ground on fractures

The United Nations and Therapeutic Cloning

Final Programme of the Founding Session of the World Congress

Concept paper founding session (2004)

Contacts

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