Venue:
Meeting Room 2, Conference Centre, Frederik Nielsens Vej 2-4, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Monday 24th October
9.30 Opening of the conference
9.45 Professor Finn Skou Pedersen, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, AU:
The Biology of the Zika Virus
Questions and Discussion
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00 Professor Ruth Faden, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins:
Ethical Issues in the Zika Virus Vaccine Trials and Pregnancy
Response by
Vice-Dean Lise Wogensen Bach, Faculty of Health Sciences, AU
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Ass. Professor Anne Line Dalsgaard, Dept. of Anthropology, AU (Clarissa Martins, Federal
University of São Carlos and Maria Nielsen, Dept. of Anthropology, AU):
Zika Virus in Brazil – an Anthropological Point of View
Questions and Discussion
14.45 Coffee
15.15 General Discussion
Tuesday 25th October
9.30 Ass. Professor Morten Dige, Dept. of Philosophy and History of Ideas, AU:
Procreation Ethics and the Four Principles
Questions and Discussion
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Ass. Professor Mette Ebbesen, Centre for Bioethics and Nanoethics, AU:
Philosophical end Empirical Justification of the Four Principles
Questions and Discussion
12.00 Professor Svend Andersen, Dept. of Theology, AU:
The Four Principles and the Golden Rule
Questions and Discussion
14.00 In the AIAS Auditorium, Building 1632, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B
Professor Tom L. Beauchamp, The Kennedy Institute, Georgetown University:
A Defense of Universal Principles and Common Morality
15.30 Reception
