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Healthcare Ethics in Finland: A Follow-up

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2004

PEKKA LOUHIALA  and
TUIJA TAKALA
PEKKA LOUHIALA
Affiliation:
Pekka Louhiala, D.Med.Sci., Ph.D., is University Lecturer (Medical Ethics), Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland, and a part-time pediatrician in private practice. His current interests include issues in pediatric research ethics
TUIJA TAKALA
Affiliation:
Tuija Takala, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics in Policy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, and Docent of Practical Philosophy in the Department of Moral and Social Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her main research interest lies in the philosophical analysis of bioethical concepts
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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 As predicted, there were problems, and eventually the proposal was withdrawn, leaving Finland still without a law on assisted reproduction.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.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: INTERNATIONAL VOICES 2004
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 2004 , pp. 236 - 240
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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