Announcements
Master’s programme in Applied Ethics
Utrecht University, the Netherlands, offers a one year Master’s programme in Applied Ethics, starting on September 1, 2003. The programme, an interdisciplinary activity of Utrecht University, is aimed at students from various backgrounds (for example medicine, veterinary medicine, biology, philosophy, theology or law), who have completed a bachelor or comparable programme and have developed basic academic competence in ethics. The programme focuses on the interaction between moral practice and ethical theory. The lecturers work in the Centre for Bioethics and Health Law and in the departments of Philosophy, Theology, Law, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. The course is taught in English. For further information go to www.ethics.uu.nl or contact Frans Brom, Marcel Verweij, Marcus Düwell, Utrecht University Centre of Bioethics and Health Law, Heidelberglaan 2 NL – 3584 CS Utrecht. Tel: 0031 30 2534399
June 25-28, 2003 Third National Congress of Medical Ethics, Bursa, Turkey
The Third National Congress of Medical Ethics to be held in Cekirge, a historical region of Bursa in Turkey, is expected to have many discussions with an international perspective. Simultaneous translation from English to Turkish and from Turkish to English will be available. Nine conferences have been planned, one round-table, one workshop, one course and one student session, as well as a number of panels and oral and poster presentations. Among the topics to be covered are philosophy and medicine, research ethics, clinical ethics, healthcare ethics, medical law, ethics education in medicine, a feminist approach to bioethics, and the role of the media. Papers will be accepted up to April 15, 2003. For further details contact the Congress President, Professor Aysegul DEMIRHAN ERDEMIR, Uludag University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Ethics, 16059 Gorukle/Bursa, Turkey. e-mail: [email protected] or visit http://www.burkon.com/biyoetik/eindex.htm
Remembering Bhopal
Suroopa Mukherjee’s Bhopal gas tragedy: the worst industrial disaster in human history is a book for ‘young people on the threshold of their careers’. A generation has grown up since the night of December 3, 1984, when tonnes of deadly pesticide leaked out of storage tanks in Union Carbide’s factory in this central Indian city. Thousands of people were killed in one stroke and people continue to die every day in Bhopal. The survivors continue to suffer more than 18 years later. Ms Mukherjee pulls together information from a variety of sources including survivors’ groups, organisations concerned with health and human rights, and the media, to tell the story of the Bhopal gas disaster-who was responsible, efforts to seek justice, and what is happening today. The book is illustrated with charts, diagrams and a number of photographs by Raghu Rai.
Suroopa Mukherjee. Bhopal gas tragedy: the worst industrial disaster in human history. Tulika Publishers, Chennai, 2002. For copies, write to Tulika at [email protected] or [email protected] or visit www.tulikabooks.com. Goodbooks Marketing Pvt Ltd, 76 Fourth Street, Abhiramapuram, Chennai 600 018. www.goodbooksindia.com
Raghu Rai’s Exposure: portrait of a corporate crime contains a collection of deeply moving photographs taken in 1984 when Raghu Rai arrived in Bhopal the day after the disaster, and then on a return visit in 2002. The introduction is written by Bhopal-based journalist Anil Sharma who was an eye-witness to the gas disaster.
Raghu Rai. Exposure: portrait of a corporate crime. Photographs of Bhopal by Raghu Rai. Published by Greenpeace International, Amsterdam, August 2002. For copies write to Greenepeace India, J-15 Saket, New Delhi 110 017 or visit www.greenpeaceindia.org
