We invite you to read a new article by Drs. Joanna Różyńska and Emilia Kaczmarek devoted to the legal and ethical aspects of remunerating participants in medical experiments.
Różyńska J., Kaczmarek E. (2025). Paying participants in medical research. An ethico-legal analysis of Article 23b(1) of the Polish Act on the Professions of Physician and Dentist. Przeglad Praw Medycznego [Polish Medical Law Review], 7(3), 5-40. https://doi.org/10.70537/ppm/211366
Read the new paper by Katarzyna Bielińska!
Bielińska, K. (2025). With Marx against a double imperialist agenda: Césaire’s, Memmi’s and Fanon’s decoloniality reinterpreted. Critique, 53(2–3), 289–312. https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2025.2550862
On 19 October 2005, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) adopted the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
To mark the 10th anniversary of this adoption, 19 October was designated World Bioethics Day. The International Chair in Bioethics Units – World Medical Association (WMA) Cooperating Centre is the initiator of World Bioethics Day celebrations. The Centre for Bioethics and Biolaw is also a member of the International Chair in Bioethics Units.
Enjoy World Bioethics Day 2025!
The European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH), of which dr. Joanna Różyńska is a board member, is now accepting submissions for two Young Scholar Awards for scientific contributions (papers) addressing ethical, epistemological, or other philosophical issues related to medicine and healthcare.
The call is open to Master’s and Ph.D. students, as well as early career researchers, who, as of 2026, are within eight years of completing their Ph.D. Submissions must be original and unpublished works. They must be written in English and submitted by March 1, 2026, to Prof. Péter Kakuk ().
The first-place award includes €2,000, and the second-place award €1,500, both intended to support travel and accommodation costs for attending the 38th ESPMH Conference, to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, August 2026. Award winners will be invited to present their work at this conference. For the call details click here.
From June 26 to 27, 2025, the Staszic Palace will host the 34th National Ethics Councils Forum (NEC Forum) “Challenges to Human Vulnerability in a Rapidly Changing World.” The event is held under the patronage of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and under the honorary patronage of the Minister of Science and Higher Education.
The NEC Forum is co-organized by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), Research Ethics & Integrity Sector; the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Philosophy (Center for Bioethics & Biolaw); the Bioethics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Ethics in Science Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The NEC Forum is a network of experts established to exchange information and experience, and best practices on issues of common interest within the fields of ethics and science. The NEC Forum organizes meetings in the member state that holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union. It draws together representatives from EU member states and associated countries to the Research Framework Program, the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), the Council of Europe (CoE), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the World Health Organization (WHO). Additionally, participants from neighboring EU countries and other non-EU countries (e.g., China) are invited to enrich the network’s work and build awareness of European ethics standards and legislation.
We invite you to read a new paper by Joanna Różyńska
Różyńska, J. (2025). How Best to Interpret the Minimal Risk Threshold in the EU Regulation on Clinical Trials?”. Diametros, June, 1-27.