COIMBRA 11-12 JULY 2011
Centre for Biomedical Law
Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra
International Symposium:
Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine – updated or outdated?
11 July 2011
9h00 – Welcome adress: Prof. Dr. Guilherme de Oliveira
9h15-10h30
Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Guilherme de Oliveira
PRINCIPLES
• Lia NEVES – Health: a non static phenomenon
• Radmila HREVTSOVA – Ensuring equitable access to health care in East European countries: problems and prospects
• Luís VALE – Access to health care, between rationing and responsiveness: problem(s) and meaning
Chairperson: Prof. Dr. José Manuel Silva (Bastonário da Ordem dos Médicos/ President of the Portuguese Medical Association)
11h00-13h30
INFORMED CONSENT
• Rafael VALE REIS, Medical Research Using Biobanks: Do We Need To Boost Our Concept Of Informed Consent?
• Eduardo DANTAS – Informed Consent and Informed Choice
• Fabiana REGO/ Mara FREITAS - Previously expressed wishes
• Filipa SÁ – Advance Directives
• Washington FONSECA – Assisted suicide, euthanasia, orthotanasia: the inadmissibility of the right to kill terminally ill patients.
• Cecília FONSECA – Law(s) without borders - Reflections on Comparative Law.
Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Helena Moniz
14h30-15h30
PRIVATE LIFE AND RIGHT TO INFORMATION
• Jean HERVEG – The Right to Private Life in the field of Biomedicine
• Lukáš PRUDIL – Privacy protection in the times of Facebook
Chairperson: Prof. Dr. João Loureiro
15h45-17h00
HUMAN GENOME
• Anne-Marie DUGUET - Genetic information
• Camilla FITTIPALDI – The Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention on Genetic Testing for Health Purposes: step forward against the direct-to-consumer genetic testing services?
• Elisabete FERREIRA - Intangibility of human genetic identity: Is this really a human right? Why?
• Alexandre PEREIRA: Human genes as biotechnological corporate assets?
12 July 2011
Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Sinde Monteiro
9h00-10h30
HUMAN GENOME/ ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
• Allane MADANAMOOTHOO - The Oviedo Convention and Surrogacy
• Margarida SILVESTRE – Sex selection and assisted reproduction technologies.
Chairperson: Dr. Maria de Belém Roseira
Prof. Dr. Céu Rueff - Comments
11h00-13h00
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
• Annagrazia ALTAVILLA – Research with children: current trends and perspectives
• André NIGRE – VIPEHOLM, 66 years a bridge between benevolent paternalism and autonomy.
• Vera RAPOSO - Juridical Status of Human Embryos and Foetus at the Oviedo Convention
• Maria MERUJE – Article 18 of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine – the case for embryonic stem cells
14h30-16h00
Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Faria Costa
ORGAN AND TISSUE REMOVAL FROM LIVING DONORS FOR TRANSPLANTATION PURPOSES
• Lydia NUNES - Brief observations about organ and tissue removal from living donors for transplantation in Brazilian law
PROHIBITION OF FINANTIAL GAIN AND DISPOSAL OF A PART OF THE HUMAN BODY
• Gonçalo BANDEIRA: Of course that we need an international convention that helps to avoid trafficking in organs - some old-new civil and criminal aspects
• Natalia LOJKO: Biotechnology and intellectual property - should patents be moral?
Chairperson: Prof. Anne-Marie Duguet
16h15-17h30
INFRINGEMENTS OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE CONVENTION
• Jana KOLÁČKOVÁ - Bioethics and biomedicine in the ECHR case-law
• Katerina CERNEVA - Patients´ Complaint Proceeding and the Oviedo Convention in the Czech Republic
• Mafalda MATOS – ‘Off-Label’ – Off-Law?
• Marta VICENTE – Wrongful life actions
17h30 – Conclusions
• Prof. Dr. Guilherme de Oliveira
• André Pereira
18h30 – “Happy hour”
Executive Director:
André Pereira
andreper@fd.uc.pt
Organization/ INSCRIPTIONS
Centro de Direito Biomédico
Centre for Biomedical Law
cdb@fd.uc.pt
Tel/ Fax: +351-239821043
Price:
• General: € 100
• Ex-Students of the Centre for Biomedical Law: €75
• Students from Portuguese Universities (and European Union): €50
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This session is included in the Toulouse European Summer School on health law and bioethics, organized by Prof. Dr. Anne Marie Duguet
Association de Recherche et de Formation en Droit Médical
http://www.arfdm.asso.fr/
