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2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-193
Author(s):  
Hans-Martin Sass ◽  
Hanna Hubenko

Hans-Martin Sass, Honorary Professor of Philosophy (Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany). Founder and board member of the Centre for Medical Ethics (CME), Bochum, Germany. Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Honorary Professor of the Bioethics Research Centre, Beijing. He has written more than 60 books and pamphlets, more than 250 articles in professional journals. Editor of the Ethik in der Praxis/ Practical ethics, Muenster: Lit. Founder and co-editor of the brochures “Medizinethische Materialien”, Bochum: ZME. He has lectured in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, the Chech Republic, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, France, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan. The interview devoted to exposition of the concept of bioethics in America and Germany, as well as the professor`s attitude to the idea of the integrative concept of bioethics. The concept of integrative bioethics has been developed in different countries, a component of this concept is the idea of the need for discussion on bioethics in various sectors of society (not only medical). Equally important in this concept are the definitions of bioethics and the bioethical imperative proposed by Fritz Jahr in 1926. The scientist`s article, which was discovered in 1997, contains a new format of bioethical ideas, as well as a valuable opportunity to enhance understanding the term of bioethics as an integrative science. Interview has been conducted by Hanna Hubenko as a part of the joint international course «Integrative Bioethics». At the meeting it was discussed the experience of cooperation and plans for the future. Cooperation and feedback between scientists remains an unconditional prerogative, also in a pandemic situation (to be continued).


Author(s):  
Michael A. Milton, PhD

Discipleship and the Front Page: Public Theology in the Secular Age is an anthology of monographs offered to the general public as a contribution of distinctively Christian thinking about the personal and public implications for following Jesus Christ in “A Secular Age” (Charles Taylor, 2009). The monographs are written by subject matter experts—clergy, and laity; academics and practitioners; theologians representing a variety of traditions within the Church, as well as professionals from business, law, and medicine— with a common mission to leverage their expertise in the service of Christ and His Church. The work is a public theology initiative of the D. James Kennedy Institute of Reformed Leadership, a ministry and program of Faith for Living, Inc., a North Carolina nonprofit corporation. The collection address four areas of public life: Ideas, Daily Life, the Nation, and Triggers. Each area constitutes a division of the collection. Each of the four divisions contains three issues. The twelve issues represent the twelve chapter chapters in the book.


2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (293) ◽  
pp. 50-77
Author(s):  
Leo Pessini

Este artigo faz uma incursão nas origens históricas da bioética, resgatando três importantes protagonistas. Um mais conhecido e reconhecido, Van Rensselaer Potter, e o outro completamente desconhecido e de quem somente muito recentemente temos notícia: o filósofo, teólogo, pastor e educador Fritz Jahr. Ficamos sabendo que a expressão Bioética foi utilizada pela primeira vez por Fritz Jahr, em 1926 e 1927, num artigo publicado na revista científica Kosmos e intitulado Bioética: uma revisão do relacionamento ético dos humanos em relação aos animais e às plantas. Jahr ampliou o conceito do imperativo kantiano e propõe o imperativo bioético: respeite todo ser vivo como princípio e fim em si mesmo e trate-o, se possível, enquanto tal. O terceiro protagonista é Hans Jonas, que elabora seu princípio da responsabilidade, pensando e elaborando uma ética frente ao crescente domínio da civilização técnico-científica. A expressão Bioéticaganhou certificado de nascimento e consolida-se nos EUA durante os anos 70 e é “exportada” para o mundo, a partir dos anos 80 do século passado, pelos trabalhos de Van Rensselaer Potter e do Instituto Kennedy de Bioética (1971), junto à Georgetown University, em Washington.Abstract: This article attempts an incursion into the historical origins of bioethics and rescues three important protagonists. The first, better known and recognized, is Van Rensselaer Potter; the second one, totally unknown and of whom we have heard only recently, is the philosopher, theologian, pastor and educator, Fritz Jahr. We come to know that the expression Bioethics was used for the first time by Fritz Jahr, in 1926 and 1927, in an article published in the scientific magazine Kosmos under the title Bioethics: A Review of the Ethical Relationships of Humans to Animals and Plants. Jahr extended Kant’s concept of moral imperative and proposed the bioethical imperative: respect every live being, as a beginning and as an end in itself and treat it, if possible, as such. The third protagonist is Hans Jonas, who develops his principle of responsibility, thinking and elaborating a type of ethics to confront the increasing domination of the techno-scientific civilization. The expression Bioethics gained a birth certificate and strengthened itself during the 1970s being exported to the world from the 1980s onwards through the works of Van Rensselaer Potter and the Kennedy Institute of Bioethics (1971) at the Georgetown University in Washington.Keywords: Bioethics. Origin. Van Rensselaer Potter. Fritz Jahr. Hans Jonas.


2018 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 283-298
Author(s):  
Tim Hardingham

Helen Muir was a leader in British biomedical research over many years. She trained as a chemist at Oxford and, having started her research on the structure of penicillin, she moved progressively into biomedical research. Helen's major achievements were in research on joint diseases, particularly osteoarthritis, which affects 8 million sufferers in the UK. She identified the molecular basis of the key load-bearing properties of cartilage in our joints and helped to establish that osteoarthritis was driven by active processes and not just wear and tear. This revolutionized research approaches at the time and the consequences are important to this day. Her careful research analysis laid the foundation for molecular cellular research approaches to degenerative joint diseases. She was Division Head and then Director at the Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology in Hammersmith, London. Helen was highly regarded and was appointed the first woman member of the Medical Research Council and later a Trustee of the Wellcome Trust. She was respected for her opinions, which she expressed in a forthright manner. She was very much without prejudice and judged people on their merits. She could not stand pomposity and, although she became a grand lady, she always had a wry sense of humour and liked a good laugh.


The Lancet ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 388 (10055) ◽  
pp. 1972
Author(s):  
Fiona Mitchell
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2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-210

This essay summarizes reflections offered at the 2014 Edward Kennedy Institute Mediation Conference. Using as an example her community mediation program in Philadelphia, the author outlines the how the cycle of creativity affected the program (and the wider community mediation field) over time—starting with identifying a problem, then experimenting with exciting ideas, improvising, then formalizing, sustaining, and institutionalizing. The author observes that both creativity and formalizing are essential, yet are necessarily in tension. After offering several ways mediators and programs can encourage creativity through co-mediation, mentoring, interacting with other fields, and risking improvisation, the essay concludes that the excitement of creative energy can propel a program and its offshoots for a long time afterward. However creativity is ephemeral and at its heart, mediation is less about fostering creative approaches than about helping parties “be real.” For the next creative cycle, mediators need to be “real” about the causes of community conflicts, and co-create pathways to conflict resolution that people in those communities find effective. The 2014 Edward Kennedy Institute Conference theme of “Creative responses to conflict” prompted me to look again at my youthful experiences in an early community mediation program, with attention to the role of creativity — how it emerges, improvises, formalizes, finds ways to sustain and institutionalize, and appears again. The story may tell us more about the role of creativity in the formation of a new profession than it reveals about creativity in mediation and conflict resolution per se, so I visit that latter question briefly at the end. For our purposes in this essay, “creativity” refers to the process of inventing a significant, original approach to something. Ideally the creators also have the craft skill to bring their idea into the real world. When a big-scale creative idea comes along at a receptive time, it can generate many offspring. The movement to apply “mediation” to whole new categories of disputes was one of those moments. There are several commonly noted characteristics of how creativity unfolds that I will list briefly, then look at how they played out in a community mediation context: • Although we tend to think of creativity as an intuitive and sudden insight—that Eureka! moment—durable ideas are most likely to emerge from sustained practice and study and experimentation. • Within that field of knowledge, focusing on a limited problem, a puzzle, an idea, a specific situation also helps concentrate the creator’s attention. • Creativity often bubbles up at the margins and intersections, when someone deeply familiar with one area encounters practices and knowledge from an • Two other factors encourage creativity. • One is a loose, playful approach, as it helps loosen the mind from habit and judgmental voices. • The other is collaborating and/or competing with other people, either of which can increase social motivation to create something or solve a problem. Teamwork also has the advantage of pulling and together a greater mix of knowledge and therefore the chance of productive cross-fertilization and more careful selection of winning ideas.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-200

This keynote presentation (from Keynote speech from International Conference, September 4-7, 2014, Edward Kennedy Institute International for Conflict Intervention, NUI Maynooth) highlighted the myriad of changes that have impacted on the nature of conflict, and global responses to it, over the past four or five decades and the domination of Western approaches to mediation in different cultural contexts. The presenter offered possible ways of avoiding the pitfalls caused when mediators and trainers unthinkingly impose their norms and values into another country’s dispute response system, regardless of the type and nature of the dispute, including: self-reflexivity - recognising the mediator’s own cultural, political and situational embeddedness; discourse analysis - addressing power by raising awareness of the impact of dominant discourses; cultural fluency - valuing differences and pluralities of identity in order to be client-centred; and thinking in terms of conflict transformation. She also argued that mediators should reject notions of neutrality and operate within a framework of social justice and human rights.


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