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Report: A tool for ethical analysis of health care governance models
The council has published a proposal for a tool for ethical analysis of health care governance models.
The Council’s message to the Government: medical age assessment in the asylum process needs to be objectively examined
The Council has sent a letter to the Department of Justice concerning medical age assessment in the asylum process.
Watch the film from the conference: Artificial intelligence in health care
The aim of the conference was to illuminate how artificial intelligence might change healthcare and what ethical challenges the development brings with it.
Smer calls for the government to review the current legislation on gene technology
Since the Genetic Integrity Act (2006:351) came into force 2006, new technologies have been developed that are not covered by the law. According to Smer, there is a need for a national strategy for the field of gene technology in order to promote an ethically sustainable and safe developement where respect for human dignity is preserved.
Two new Smer comments published
The Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics has published two new comments: one regarding care of intersexual children, and the other fetal reduction.
The Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics arranges the seminar “Neuroethics: Deep Brain Stimulation” on the 16th of March at the Riksdag.
Watch lectures from Ethics Day 2016
The theme for the conference was “Self-determination, physician assisted dying and care at the end of life”. Among the participants were professors Wayne Sumner and Anthony Back who gave presentations concerning physician-assisted suicide in Canada and in the United States.