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International Care Ethics Observatory News
The International Care Ethics (ICE) Observatory is based in the School of Health and Social Care, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
The overall aim of the ICE Observatory is to engage in research and scholarship that illuminates the importance and complexity of care activities and underpins innovative and effective interventions that develop and sustain ethical care practices. The ICE Observatory acts as an inter-disciplinary, national, and international hub of educational, organizational, and research expertise and activity to revalue care and promote an in-depth understanding of, and commitment to, ethics in health and social care. In addition to initiating and promoting international research, the Center also hosts an annual conference, regular ethics seminars, and a post-graduate professional ethics summer school.
19th Nursing Ethics Conference and 4th International Ethics in Care Conference, 1 and 2 September 2018, Cork, Ireland
In 2018, both the ICE Observatory of the University of Surrey (UK) and the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork (Ireland) will organize the19th Nursing Ethics Conference and the 4th International Ethics in Care Conference. An excellent occasion to reflect on future challenges and opportunities of ethics in nursing and care.
Practitioners, researchers, educators, managers, and students in the field of health and social care from around the world are invited to attend and participate in this conference to engage in plenary lectures, panel discussions, and oral presentations.
More information can be found at: https://www.ucc.ie/en/nursingmidwifery/19th-international-nursing-ethics-conference4th-international-ethics-in-care-conference.html
Call for Nominations: Human Rights and Nursing Awards
The Human Rights and Nursing Awards are presented to any nurse in recognition of an outstanding commitment to human rights and exemplifying the essence of nursing’s philosophy of humanity.
Criteria for the Human Rights and Nursing Award
The Directors and local Management Committee review all nominations for the Human Rights Award annually: The contributions and accomplishments of the nominee must be of international significance to human rights. The contributions of the nominee have influenced healthcare and/or nursing practice.
Please contact Dr Verena Tschudin, University of Surrey, if you know of a nurse in your country who is worthy of such an award. There is now a significant financial component, and these awards can help develop human rights related activities.
Verena can be reached via email at
Online Newsfeeds about Nursing Ethics and Healthcare Ethics
Automated Newsfeeds from Nursing Times.net
For up-to-date news items, analysis, and nursing practice, please visit the following link: http://www.nursingtimes.net/register/ or follow on Twitter: @NursingTimes
Automated Newsfeeds from NSW Health
This website provides up-to-date information on developments in health law and ethics from Australia and around the world. For more information visit the following link: http://www.ehln.org/ or follow on Twitter: @EthicsHealthLaw
Online Resources on Nursing Ethics and Healthcare Ethics
International Council for Nurses Code of Ethics
For the latest revised 2012 version of the Code of ethics for Nurses, please visit the following link: http://www.icn.ch/about-icn/code-of-ethics-for-nurses/
Top 25 Nursing Ethics Blogs
The International Centre for Nursing Ethics (ICNE) is listed as one of the top 25 nursing ethics blogs. For more information on other blogs, please visit the following link: http://lpntobsnonline.org/2010/top-25-nursing-ethics-blogs/ or follow on Twitter: @LPN2BSNOnline
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the document: Global health ethics: key issues, which aims to assist policy-makers, healthcare providers, and researchers to understand key concepts in health ethics and to identify basic ethical questions surrounding health and healthcare. It illustrates the challenges of applying ethical principles to global public health and outlines practical strategies for dealing with those challenges. More information can be found at: http://www.who.int/ethics/publications/global-health-ethics/en/
Hastings Center
This website offers news, information, and resources relating to fundamental ethical issues in the areas of health, medicine, and environment that affect individuals, communities, and societies. For more information, please visit the following link: http://www.thehastingscenter.org/ or follow on Twitter: @hastingcenter
BioEdge
BioEdge is edited by Michael Cook who is based in Melbourne, Australia, and provides regular updates and news regarding bioethics around the world.
Go to: http://www.bioedge.org/ or follow on Twitter: @bioedge
Global Health Ethics
The Global Health Ethics website offers a virtual space for dialog on shared ethical concerns and support on unique ethical dilemmas. This website is available in several languages.
Global Ethics Observatory
The Global Ethics Observatory (GEObs) is a system of databases covering a range of areas in bioethics and applied ethics in science and technology such as environmental ethics, science ethics, and technology ethics. This website is available in six different languages via the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) platform.
Amnesty International
This website offers news, information, and resources relating to health and human rights. Readers can sign up for the fortnightly electronic bulletin for health professionals and access links to related websites.
Go to: http://www.amnesty.org/en/health-and-human-rights or follow on Twitter: @amnesty
International Bioethics Committee
The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) is a body of 36 independent experts that follows progress in the life sciences and its applications in order to ensure respect for human dignity and freedom. It was created in 1993. For more information on the work of this committee, please visit the following link: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/bioethics/international-bioethics-committee/
Center for Ethics and Human Rights of the American Nurses Association
The Center is committed to addressing the complex ethical and human rights issues confronting nurses and designing activities and programs to increase the ethical competence and human rights sensitivity of nurses. Through the Center, American Nurses Association’s (ANA) abiding commitment to the human rights dimensions of healthcare is demonstrated.
Go to: http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/EthicsStandards
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics promotes academic research and educational activities globally in the field of bioethics and aims at engaging students, trainees, the public, and policy-makers in serious discourse about related issues. The bulletin website offers news, information, and resources relating to bioethics.
Go to: http://bioethicsbulletin.org/ or follow on Twitter: @bermaninstitute
Canadian Bioethics Society
The Canadian Bioethics Society (CBS) is a national, member-driven, registered charity serving as a forum for individuals interested in sharing ideas relating to bioethics. Members of the CBS are engaged in a wide variety of activities including research in bioethics, health policy, bioethics teaching and education, research ethics, delivery and planning of health and healthcare, and public engagement and consultation on bioethics issues, among others. For more information, please visit the following link: https://www.bioethics.ca/
WHO Global Health Ethics Unit
The Global Health Ethics Unit (WHO) provides a focal point for the examination of ethical issues raised by activities throughout the Organization. The unit also supports Member States in addressing ethical issues that arise in their own countries. This includes a range of global bioethics topics; from public health surveillance to developments in genomics, and from research with human beings to fair access to health services.
PEA Soup
PEA Soup is a blog designed to provide a forum for discussing philosophy, ethics, and academia. Its mission is to transcend geographical barriers so that moral philosophers from across the globe can converse in much the way that they would with their nearby colleagues. The primary subject matter is ethics, where this includes not only metaethics, normative ethical theory, and applied ethics, but also cognate areas of philosophy, including political philosophy, philosophy of action, and personal identity. The secondary foci are other philosophical issues and professional issues, such as those that arise in teaching philosophy.
The Ethics Blog—Uppsala Universitet—Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics
The majority of the blog content deals with the research that is conducted at Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB). Blog posts are often about biobanks and healthcare. But that is not all: the authors write about everything from neurophilosophy to genetic risk information. The Swedish blog covers more of the current national debate while its English sister is more geared toward the bioethics research community. Pär Segerdahl is editor of both blogs, and they are run together with BBMRI.se. He invites you to have a look, a read, and a bit of dialog with us at Etikbloggen and the Ethics Blog.
Practical Ethics Blog—University of Oxford
In the blog Practical Ethics, where you can find daily ethical analysis of news events written by authors drawn from students and researchers in four centers based at the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford, and from our visitors and guest authors. The authors focus on current events with practical ethical relevance, including developments in science and technology, environmental policy, public health, and information ethics.
Go to: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/ or follow on Twitter: @ethicsinthenews
Center for Bioethics—Harvard Medical School
The Center is designed as a platform for integrating ethics and scientific discovery more closely than ever before, generating new forms of collaboration among students, bench scientists, clinical researchers, clinicians, practicing bioethicists, academic philosophers, historians of medicine, humanities scholars, and others able to bring their disciplinary perspectives to bear on the ethical challenges posed by present and future biomedical advances.
Go to: http://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu or follow on Twitter: @HMSbioethics