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COVID-19, Ethics and Law
Human Rights and the COVID-19 emergency regulations in Israel (20.5.2020)
Oren Asman, LLD (Israel)
Human Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic (4.5.2020)
Prof. Michael Stein, Dr. Sagit Mor, Dr. Meytal Segal-Reich, Prof. Yechiel Michael Barilan, Dr. Oren Asman
Global Bioethics, Medical Law and International Human Rights Law
Ethics at the Horizon: A Proposal for a Future-Facing Global Bioethics
Jeffrey Kahn,PhD (USA)
The Medicalization of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
Yechiel Michael Barilan, MD, MA (Israel)
Medical Law and Bioethics – Connecting the Dots Internationally
Oren Asman, LLD (Israel)
Legal Regulation for Reciprocal Benefit: Stopping Organ Trafficking and Improving Unpaid Donation
Alexander Capron, MA, LLB (USA)
Humanitarian Medicine, Ethics and Current Challenges in Israel
The Situation in Syria – Geopolitical Background
Eyal Zisser,PhD, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University
The Unique Humanitarian Aid Project to the Syrian Casualties
Col.(res.) Salman Zarka, MD, M.P.H., M.A, Director of Ziv Medical Center.
Removing borders: The Humanitarian Treatment of Syrian Nationals Injured In the Ongoing Civil War
Samuel Tobias, MD (Israel)
Bioethics and Law in the Faculty of Medicine
Ehud Grossman, MD, Dean, Sackler Faculty of Medicine (Israel)
Humanitarian Medicine – Historical, Ethical and Legal Aspects
Roy Beran, MD., John Devereux, PhD (Australia)
The Evil of Josef Mengele, Twin Experiments, Auschwitz and Informed Consent
Ken J. Berger, M.D (Canada)
Bioethics and the Holocaust: Teaching the Past for Improving the Future
Tessa Chelouche, MD (Israel)
Forensic Medicine and Ethics
Official Medicolegal Investigation of Deaths Involving Celebrities and Prominent Political Individuals: Special Concerns and Considerations
Cyril Wecht, MD (USA)
Incapacitating Terrorists: Causes of Death, Ethical and Interpretive Challenges
Chen Kugel, MD; Maya Furman, MD; Sivan Chaviv, MD (Israel)
Life achievement Award to Prof. Thomas Noguchi
An Urgent Need to Establish Guidelines for Ethics in Practice of ForensicSciences
Thomas Noguchi, MD (USA)
Disability Rights
Legal Capacity and Mental Disability: A Need for Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue
Michael Stein,PhD (USA)
Nothing About Us Without Us: A Disability Challenge to Bioethics
Sagit Mor, PhD (Israel)
Desiring Motherhood Despite Severe Disability
Esther-Lee Marcus, PhD (Israel)
Patient’s Rights in Mental Health: Problems of Residential Care in Serbia
Hajrija Mujovic, PhD (Serbia)
Application of Eugenic Practices to People with Disabilities in Israel
Chaya Gershuni LL.M (Israel)
Significance of Natural Will Relating to Sexual Health
Dr. Özge Yücel, LL.M., PhD (Turkey)
Psychiatry, Ethics and Law
Finding the Yellow Brick Road – Highlights of Ethical Dilemmas in Setting Mental Health Services - Ethics of Public Policy
Tal Bergman Levy, MD, MsC (Israel)
Recent advances in the genetics and neurobiology of mental health – Social and ethical implications
Steven A. Kushner, MD, PhD, (Netherlands)
Standard of Protection of Human Rights of Patients in Psychiatric Hospitals
Tomasz Sroka, PhD (Poland)
Compulsory Admission Based on Public Authority in Japan
Shigeki Takahashi M.D. PhD (Japan)
Mental Health Legal Representation in Israel
Advocate Daniel Raz, LL.M (Israel)
Psychiatric Patient Restraint In Israel - Between Medicine and law
Sharon Primor, LL.M, PHD Candidate (Israel)
Advance Directives and Mental Health in Czech Law
Tomáš Holčapek, PhD (Czech Republic)
Capacity and Self-Determination in Mental Health - The Portuguese Law
Carla Barbosa, Lawyer (Portugal)
Please Let Mentally Ill Patients Make True Self-Decision Under the Macau Law
Man Teng Iong M.S, PhD Candidate(Macau)
The Obligations and Rights of a Psychiatrist
Tugce Oral, LL.M, PhD (Turkey)
Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Neurodevelopmental Disability
Anthony Kearns FRCPsych (Ireland)
Homicide While Asleep and Israeli Law
Jean Askenasy, MD, PhD; Haran Feinstein, Judge (ret.)(Israel)
Legal (or Illegal) Denial of Micro Trauma in Mental Injuries
Samuel Wolfman, PhD (Israel)
End of Life Care
End-of-Life Care Decision-Making in Japan: Past, Present & Future Perspectives
Takeshi Miyashita, LL.M (Japan)
The Belgian Case of the ’Deacon of Death’: Ending the Life of the Patient Without Their Consent
Thierry Vansweevelt, PhD (Belgium)
Ethics and the Patient’s Religious Beliefs in Physician Assisted Death
Richard Wilbur, MD, JD (USA)
Euthanasia for Psychiatric Patients in the Benelux: Reasons for Concern?
Sylvie Tack, JD. (Belgium)
Cost-Benefit Model for Antibiotic Treatment at End of Life
Yael Dishon-Benattar, RN, MA, PhD Candidate (Israel)
End of life excessive/persistent treatment – who takes the decision?
Bilha Kreisberg, RN, MA (Israel)
Old Age and Legal rights
Living with Advanced Dementia and the Law: Lessons from Practice and Philosophy
Julian Hughes, MD,PhD (England)
Elder Law – What the Future Holds
Israel (Issi) Doron, LL.M,PhD, (Israel)
Age Discrimination of Doctors Versus Quality Care
Filip Dewallens,PhD (Belgium)
Challenges for Public Health in a Fast-Aging Society
Eduardo Dantas, LL.M, PhD Candidate (Portugal)
The Older Patient with Dementia as a Sexual Offender
Tzvi Dwolatzky, MD, Ella Holtzman, MA, Eliezer Witztum, MD (Israel)
Using Humor Intelligently in Interactions Between Doctor and Elderly Patient
Edna Katzenelson, PhD (Israel)
Genetics, Ethics and Law
Judit Sandor, PhD (Hungary)
Ethical Implications of Deep Genomics Analysis Becoming Mainstream
Noam Shomron,PhD (Israel)
Can Genetic Information Be Disclosed to Relatives?
Cindy Cornelis, PhD Candidate (Belgium)
Accompanying Family Members in Genetic Counseling: Clinicians' Perception
Sivia Barnoy, RN, Ph.D, Roy Gilbar, LLM. PhD (Israel)
Religious Law, Sexuality and Fertility
Islamic Jurisprudential Gerontology in Bioethics: Personhood and Parenthood
Osman Tastan, PhD (Turkey)
Vardit Rispler-Chaim, PhD (Israel)
Legal and Ethical Status of Embryotomy in Yerushalmi vs Bavli
Moshe Pinchuk, PhD (Israel)
Fertility Treatment for Couples With Mental Disabilities in Jewish Law
Rabbi Gideon Weitzman, B.Ed. (Israel)
Hermeneutics matters! A new approach to the famous debate between Feinstein and Waldenberg on abortion
Melanie Mordhorst-Mayer, Ph.D. (Israel)
Halacha and Modern Medicine in the Lithuanian Environment: The Metzitza Debate
Elimelech Westreich, PhD and Roi Westreich, MD (Israel)
Jewish Law and Medicine
Jewish Law, Medical Ethics and the Regulator
Rabbi Mordechai Halperin, MD (Israel)
Big Data and Medical Decision-Making from the perspective of Halacha
Rabbi Shabtai Rapoport (Israel)
The Right to Procreate in Israel: The Case of Postmortem Sperm Retrieval
Avishalom Westreich,PhD (Israel)
The Enduring Power of Attorney in Jewish Law
Yardena Cope-Joseph, LLM (Israel)
Rael Strous, MD (Israel)