Events

Book Global Bioethics translated
The Fondazione Lanza in Padua, Italy, organized a public presentation on June 22, 2022 of the Italian translation of the book Global Bioethics – An Introduction. This version is now used in several Italian universities to introduce students in the field of global health and bioethics.
Italian translation of the book Global Bioethics – An Introduction.
Global Bioethics – An Introduction has also been translated in Japanese.
Japanese translation of the book Global Bioethics – An Introduction.
Pontifical Academy for Life
In July 2017 Henk ten Have has been appointed as a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
The Pontifical Academy for Life was founded in 1994 by Pope John Paul II. The Academy so to speak is an advisory body to the Pope regarding issues in bioethics. The Academy has a General Assembly every year in combination with a public conference. The Academy has also established a working group on Global Bioethics.
In September 2022, the Academy organized, together with NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering, University of Basel, ETH Zürich, and Bambino Jesu Children’s Hospital the 1st International Conference ‘Ethics of Engineering life’ (ICEEL). The aim is to bring life scientists and scientists in ethics and humanities together to explore and analyse relevant ethical issues of contemporary life sciences.
Videos
November 2017: ‘Global ethics, vulnerability and ethics education’
IAEE conference in Mangalore, India
October 2016: ‘Palliative sedation: European Perspectives’
University of Chicago
April 2014: ‘Vulnerability – Challenges to bioethics in a global context’
Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha
September 2008: ’Why do we need bioethics?’
City Club Friday Forum Series, The City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, U.S.A.
Current Projects
Bizarre Bioethics
This new book will examine the issue of agenda-setting in bioethics. What processes and perspectives determine what kind of cases and problems are on the agenda of bioethical debate?
The soul in healthcare and bioethics
This new book, in cooperation with Renzo Pegoraro, explores the connections between health, ethics and soul. It examines the general complaints that the soul has been lost in healthcare as well as in bioethics.
Bioethics and women’s rights in Islamic contexts in the era of reproductive technologies
Work has started on this book in cooperation with Nouzha Guessous. This book will focus on the connection between bioethics and women’s rights. It will explore this connection in a religious comparative approach in regard to the example of artificial reproductive technologies (ARTs) because of their impact on women in particular. The availability and application of ARTs produces a tension with traditional and religious views on sexuality, reproduction, parenthood, and family ties. These tensions have been studied in Western cultures but less so in the Islamic context. This book will focus particularly on the question how new practices of ARTs are influencing the rights of Islamic women in countries where Islam is the dominant religion as well as in secular countries where it is one religion among others. The book will include 20 chapters from authors from different countries and regions. It will be associated with a conference in May 2021 at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research in Marseille, France (initially scheduled in May 2020 but postponed due to Covid-19).