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2008 Udo Schuklenk Bioethics Essay Competition

25 Jun

The information keeps pouring in, doesn’t it. I have been notified about the above scholarship organised by

The Nigerian Bioethics Group
In conjunction with
The National Association of Philosophy Graduates-Nigeria
and
The National Association of Philosophy Students-Nigeria
in Association with

Wiley Blackwell

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ESSAY TOPIC:Write a 1000 to 1500 word bioethics essay on an issue that arises from or in the practice of bioethics and its relevance to Africa. The topic can be related to Human Health, Biotechnology, the Environment, Social Equality, Cloning, Xenotransplants, Food Safety, or Agriculture, Drugs (R&D), Aging and End of Life, Clinical and Organizational Ethics, Life Sciences, and Health Disparities, Stem-cell Research.

Example topics could include: the ethics of artificial organ development, the withholding of advanced biotechnology from nations that we consider unfriendly, ethics of genetically modified organisms, the corporate responsibility for developing environment-friendly energy sources, etc. Please note that you are free to develop your own topic related to bioethics and that you do not have to use any of the examples provided.

Deadline for submission (submit a pdf online) is September 15th, 2008.

For more information, go to the website here.
Good luck people.