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 Serbian Unit of the International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
Country: Serbia
Date (year) of establishment: 2011
Head of the Committee: Prof Vojin Rakic, Ph.DProfesssor,
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory Univ. Of Belgrade
Executive Committee: Professor Vojin Rakic, PhD, Full Professor
The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
University of Belgrade

Prof. dr Jovan Babic
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Belgrade

Dr Hajrija Mujovic-Zornic
Institute for Social Sciences

Prof. dr Dragoslav Marinkovic
Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Prof. dr Zoran Todorovic
Faculty of Medicine
University of Belgrade

Dr Dusanka Krajnovic
Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Belgrade

Dr Petar Bojanic
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
University of Belgrade

Dr Veselin Mitrovic
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Belgrade
Name of the host Institute: The Serbian Unit of the International Network of UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
Address: Kraljice natalije 45, 11000 Beograd, Serbia
Phone: +381(0)11.26 46 242
Fax: +381(0)11.26 46 242
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Functions and Activities
Course, seminars: 
Lectures at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IPST) that were supported by the Serbian Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics:
-              John Harris: “Towards Responsible Use Of Cognitive Enhancing Drugs By The Healthy”
 
-              Don Marquis: “Four Perspectives on Abortion Ethics”
 
-              Vojin Rakic : ”The Role of Neuro-Pharmacology in Cognitive and Moral Enhancement".
 
-              Hajrija Mujovic Zornic (on the legal framework pertaining to biomedical and bioethical issues)
 
-              Tamas Gaspar Miklos (on biopolitics)
 
-              Ivan Mladenovic (on libertarian paternalism and bioethics)
 
-              Rosemarie Tong (on a feminist bioethics of care)
 
-              Jovan Babic from the Faculty of Philosophy held a cycle of three lectures on bioethics at IPST: one on abortion ethics, one on new technologies in human reproduction and one on end of life ethics.
 
-              Rosamond Rhodes (on living organ donors)
 
-              Dubravka Vejnovic (on the concept of race)
 
-              Voin Milevski (on pre-natal “abortion”)
 
-              Ayesha Ahmad (on the ethical use of memory erasing medication for trauma victims)
Research:

 1)          Ongoing IPST project “Bioethical Aspects: Morally Acceptable Within the Biotechnologically and Socially Possible”, within the broader project “Rare Diseases: Molecular Pathophysiology, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Modalities, and Social, Ethical, and Legal Aspects”. Funded by the Serbian Ministry of Education and Science (2011-2015). A number of members of the Steering Committee of the Serbian Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics are researchers of the mentioned project.

2)     The Center for the Study of Bioethics is member of a Consortium that runs the project COST Action IS1201: Disaster Bioethics: addressing ethical issues triggered by disasters. A number of members of the Steering Committee of the Serbian Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics are researchers of the mentioned project.
Conferences:

1)         International conference “(New) Perspectives on Bioethics” (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, in partnership with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine from New York and the Belgrade based Center for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy [CELAP], with support of the Serbian Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics).

2)          International seminar “Day of Bioethics” on 5 October 2013 (Center for the Study of Bioethics with the support of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics)
Publications:

 The following publications have been supported by the Serbian Unit:

-       Reader Bioethics (publication of IPST and the Official Gazette; editors Vojin Rakic -head of the bioethics project at IPST-, Ivan Mladenovic and Rada Drezgic –researchers on the project-)

-       Edited IPST volume The Horizon of Bioethics: Morality in Times of Technological Reproduction of the Human (editors Predrag Krstic, Rada Drezgic –researchers on the bioethics project- and Zeljko Radinkovic).

-       Edited volume Bioethics: the Challenges of Enhancement (published by Treci program (editor Veselin Mitrovic).
Activities:

      "Three lectures on bioethics".
  Lecturer: Prof. dr Jovan Babic, Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade.
  Venue: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.

  Lecture 1, 16.11.2011: Abortion
  Lecture 2, 13.11.2011: Advances in Reproductive Technologies
  Lecture 3, 30.11.2011: The Meaning of Death

 

2.    "The Role of Neuro-Pharmacology in Cognitive and Moral Enhancement". 
  Lecturer: Prof. dr Vojin Rakic, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. 
  Venue: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.
  Date: 30.11.2011.

 

  “The Concept of Race and the Ethics of Human Population Studies”.

  Lecturer: Dubravka Vejnovic

  Venue: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.

  Date: 24.12.2012

 

 

3.     7 meetings of the Steering Committee of the Serbian Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics. At these meetings a variety of initiatives have been  discussed, including the popularization of the 8th UNESCO conference “Bioethics Education: Contents, Methods, Trends” (3-5 September 2012 in Tiberias, Israel), as well as the 9th UNESCO Chair in Bioethics conference in Naples 2013, the possibilities of education of members of ethical committees, directions of research, the possibilities of popularization of bioethics through “general bioethics education”, the possibility of the establishment of networks of regional units and the definition of specific tasks of the Unit that will distinguish it from similar organizations. The importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to bioethics has also been strongly emphasized.
 
 
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