Healthcare Ethics in Finland: A Follow-up

Last year we reported that there are no professorships in medical ethics in Finland. This year we are happy to report that a chair in medical ethics (albeit temporary) has now been advertised at the University of Turku. We also gave details about the attempts to come up with a law on assisted reprod...

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Authors: Louhiala, Pekka (Author) ; Takala, Tuija (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2004
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 13, Issue: 3, Pages: 236-240
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Summary:Last year we reported that there are no professorships in medical ethics in Finland. This year we are happy to report that a chair in medical ethics (albeit temporary) has now been advertised at the University of Turku. We also gave details about the attempts to come up with a law on assisted reproduction. As predicted, there were problems, and eventually the proposal was withdrawn, leaving Finland still without a law on assisted reproduction. The talk on large-scale genetic databases has been surprisingly quiet, and even the report published by the Parliament's working group on this matter, implying that a population database should be created, went virtually unnoticed. In this year's contribution, we address the issues of male circumcision, stem cell research, and, within the field of research ethics, the problem of defining medical research.
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180104133057