Bioethics Education Documents and Links

This page is open for use, but we depend upon feedback from teachers and students to add to and improve these chapters for all to benefit from. Also it is intended to compile teaching materials, reference materials, translations and modified versions of these materials for open global use. Please send us your files and materials to add!

For a brief description of the 2003-2006 project conducted by Eubios Ethics Institute under a grant from Sasagawa Peace Foundation that was a forerunner to this UNESCO Bangkok project, see a summary in School Science Review December 2004 (pdf file). All commercial rights for files on this page are reserved, but materials can be downloaded, adapted and used for teaching, with feedback to the project leader, Darryl Macer. Email d.macer@unescobkk.org

Download the compiled book Macer, DRJ (ed). A Cross-Cultural Introduction to Bioethics (Eubios Ethics Institute) (published 2006) as sequential document files. The Teacher Resources and Notes (MSdoc, 707KB) for the textbook contains academic references, further reading, internet sites and other information that may supplement the textbook.

Download further materials
Multiple language versions of bioethics resources of UNESCO Bangkok

Book on participatory exercises - Darryl Macer, Moral Games for Teaching Bioethics (UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, Haifa, 2008) (book pdf file 1.8Mb; bookcover, 800kB pdf file).

Bioethics play performance powerpoint file (brain death and organ transplants) (see chapters in the Book)
Bioethics textbook Sustainability crossword (answers: 2005 version textbook; chapter 14, page 152).
 

A Korean translation of 12 chapters of the 2005 versions of the chapters that was made by Dr. Ivo Kwon, Ewha Women's University and colleagues in cooperation with the Korean National Commission of UNESCO can be downloaded as single file (3Mb, pdf file). There are some other materials in different languages, including powerpoint presentations and text in German, Japanese, Spanish and English in the bioethics education files page.

A bioethics dictionary in English is also available.

Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights [ENGLISH (text; brochure, 1.8Mb) / CHINESE / Indonesian / Japanese / Korean / Russian / Thai / Vietnamese]

Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights  [ENG (MSdoc, 78KB) / Japanese / Chinese / THA (PDF) / JAP (PDF, 29KB) / TUR (PDF, 98KB)/ Indonesian / Korean / Vietnamese]

International Declaration on Human Genetic Data  [ENG (PDF, 130KB) / CHINESE / Japanese (PDF, 48KB) / POR (PDF, 615) / TUR (PDF, 591KB) / Indonesian / Korean / Thai / Vietnamese]

Teaching materials on medical ethics (MS Word files) including case studies prepared by Prof. Hans Martin Sass in English and German language.

Download book from trials in 2003 from Macer, DRJ., ed., "Challenges for Bioethics in Asia" (Eubios Ethics Institute, 2004): Bioethics Education section.

List of papers in bioethics education section and links to powerpoint files on trials in bioethics education project.

Old teaching materials (1996) of Darryl Macer in English / Japanese

Spanish / Espanol translations (download as MS Word files):
Lifestyle and Fertility
Telling the truth about terminal cancer

Chinese language teaching materials (powerpoint files and author).
Note these files are not simply translations of chapters but slides teachers used to teach classes referring to the English materials as background reading and discussion started. The following files are in simplified Chinese characters used in mainland China.

From the Middle School attached to Beijing Normal University
Bird flu - Fu Jinghua
Peering at life - Wang Bing
Human plague - Fu Jinghua
Drug abuse and health
Genetic privacy - Su Baoqi
Testing for cancer gene susceptibility - Yu Yuan
Brain Death - Li Kuang
Brain Death Drama (students)7. Organ Transplants - Li Kuang
Assisted reproduction - Fu Jinghua
AIDS
Sustainable Development - Li Jianzhi
Ecotourism - Li Jianzhi

From No. 15 Middle School, Beijing
Introduction to Bioethics
Animal rights
Genetic privacy
Brain Death
Organ Transplants
Assisted Reproductive Technology
GMOs
EuthanasiaCloning

Files in traditional Chinese characters used in Taiwan
Euthanasia - Beryl Lee

Links to other sites and resources on bioethics education
For news on bioethics education research and links to further papers and websites.
 
Bioethics teaching network in Japan (in Japanese)

Biology Resources (Pattana School, Bangkok)
Environmental Science Resources (Pattana School, Bangkok)
 
Bioethics Education Project (BEEP, UK)
US and Canadian Bioethics resources link page (NIH, USA)


 

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Page last updated on 13 March 2009.