Center for Health Ethics, Law and History

2013

  • - On the 19th – 21th of November Asta Čekanauskaitė attented the 9th World Conference Bioethics, Medical ethics & Health law in Naples and presented the paper: „Do the patients participating in clinical trials understand information about clinical trials?“. Download programme here.
  • - On the 15th – 17th of October Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eugenijus Gefenas, Vilius Dranseika and Neringa Dambrauskaitė attended the COST action „Disaster bioethics“ conference „Veterans’ voices: learning from the experience of disaster relief teams and home-front coping in Israel“ in Tel Aviv. Download programme here.
  • - On the 12th – 13th of September Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eugenijus Gefenas attended the Symposium „Research Within Bounds – Protecting Human Participants in Modern Medicine and the Declaration of Helsinki, 1964 – 2014” in Geneva and presented the paper „Agreements and Disagreements about the Placebo Rule“. Download programme here.
  • - On the 12th – 13th of September Aistis Žalnora attended the conference „Czystość i brud. Hygiena w starożytności“ in Poland and presented the paper „The eugenics – the evolution of race, social hygiene from ancient times to the XX century“. Download programme here.
  • - On the 14th – 17th of August Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eugenijus Gefenas and Vilius Dranseika attended 27th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE „Innovation in Health Care and the Life Sciences“ in Basel, Switzerland and presented the papers. Download programme here.
  • - On the 4th – 6th of July Irma Kušeliauskaitė attended the 11th workshop of EAMHMS „New life of old skeletons and paper mache models” in Tartu. Click here to see the photos.
  • - On the 13th – 14th of June Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eugenijus Gefenas, Jūratė Šerepkaitė and Vilius Dranseika attended the conference „Issues in Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine/ Transformation of Patient Information Practices“ in Rīga Stradiņš University and presented the papers. Download programme here.
  • - In June the article „The activities of department of Medical history and philopsophy in Vilnius Stephen Bathory University, Faculty of Medicine in 1922 – 1939“ co-authored by Aistis Žalnora and assoc. prof. Vitalija Miežutavičiūtė was published in the „Sveikatos mokslai“ journal. Download the article here.
  • - On the 17th of May Lithuanian Bioethics Committee together with Vilnius University Medicine Faculty organized a conference „Do patients in Lithuania get enough information about clinical research?”. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eugenijus Gefenas and Asta Čekanauskaitė presented the papers. Download programme here.
  • - On the 11th of January, 2013 Asta Čekanauskaitė defended The Doctoral Dissertation “Informedness about clinical trials of patients participating in placebo-controlled clinical trials in Lithuania“ and received doctoral degree in Biomedical Sciences, Public Health. Click here for more information about The Doctoral Dissertation.