As in previous congresses, the 10th WCB will provide comprehensive coverage of as wide a range of issues in bioethics as possible. In particular, it will focus on cooperation through the communicative role of bioethics in a high globalised world.

Subthemes

•    Global and regional perspectives on bioethics
•    Justice, access to health care, and health care reform in a globalised world
•    Ethics of global health governance
•    Ethical issues in international health research
•    Clinical ethics: local concerns, international perspectives
•    Public health ethics in a global context
•    Ethical issues relating to international development, aid and reconstruction
•    Bioethics, health and the environment
•    Ethics, enhancement and the future of the human species
•    Ethical issues arising from research using human stem cells, embryos and                      new medical technologies
•    Infectious disease control and the threat of global epidemics
•    Biotechnology and bioengineering: local, regional and global debates on policy                and ethics
•    Globalization and commercialization in biomedicine
•    Ethical issues relating to vulnerable and minority populations
•    Inequalities and discrimination in health
•    Food and security
•    Medical ethics education
•    Research ethics