The activities of the Centre for Bio-Medical Ethics and Law (part of the Faculty of medicine, but with an interdisciplinary structure), are - besides teaching and documentation - mainly directed towards research. The following projects are being developed : - Parent-child relationship and Developments in Clinical Genetics - Ethical Implications of Human Genome Analysis for Clinical Practice in Medical Genetics with Special Reference to Genetic Counselling. - Human Genome, Body, Identity and Property : Philosophical Issues. - L'Ethique Biomédicale en Europe : inventaire, analyse, infor- mation. - Persistent Vegetative State. Moral and Legal Aspects of the treatment and Health Care of PVS Patients. - Influences of Prenatal Diagnosis on Social Attitudes concer- ning the Handicapped. - A Philosophical, Anthropological and Theological Study of the Status of the Embryo. - Nursing ethics. A Foundational Inquiry. - Ethics Committees : Ethical and Legal Regulations, and the Boundaries of Moral Rationality. A Meta-Ethical Approach to Medical Ethics, taken as 'Applied Ethics'. - Gene Carrier Detection : from Bioethical and Medical-Legal Problems towards Solutions (in the light of the experience with Cystic Fibrosis and Huntington Disease). - Ethical and Theological Study of the Care for the Elderly in General and of Senile Dementia in Particular. - Review of Existing Medical Data Protection Legislation and Development of a Health Informatics Deontology Code. - The Regulation of Clinical Trials. Towards a Specific Protec- tion of the Trial Subject. - The Protection of the Embryo and the Fetus. A Legal Analysis. - The use of Medical Data for Research Purposes. - Analysis of Bioethical Legislation in France. - Ethical and Legal Aspects of Medical Decision Making concerning the End of Life. - Critical Choices in Health Care. - Innovations in Organ Transplantation : Ethical and Legal Aspects. - European Network for Biomedical Ethics. Ethical Problems of In Vitro Fertilisation with particular regard to its connection with genetic diagnosis and therapy.
