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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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.
Read the new paper from Joanna Różyńska. Różyńska, J. (2025). Research Payments, Other Collateral Benefits, and the Ethics of Imposing Research Risk. The American Journal of Bioethics, 25(5), 92–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2025.2488286 | Preprint here
We invite you to participate in the competition for a PhD scholarship in Dr. Joanna Różyńska’s project “The right to bodily and mental integrity in the age of biomedicine and neurotechnology – an integrative bioethical analysis” (NCN, Sonata BIS 13). We are looking for candidates who are interested in the development of modern biomedicine and… Read More »