When Life Ends: Medicine, Law, and Culture Confronting Death in Israel

 

Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Study of the End-of-Life Together with  Hakibbutz Hameuchad - Sifriat Poalim Publishing Group has published a book on the subject of End of Life

 

A Book Launch Event will be held on  Thursday, February 4 2021 20:00-21:30

the event will be held via Zoom

Participation is free

to register please visit: https://forms.gle/1BdXcMUDAC4ckYQA7

or contact: minervaeol@tauex.tau.ac.il

 

 

 

Biomedical practices in the Middle East and Europe

The impact of religion and culture

(zoom based video-conference)

 

27th January 2021

16:00-19:30 C.E.T.

 

Convenors

Prof. Shai Lavi, Prof. Marie-Claire Foblets,

Dr.Hagai Boas, and Dr. Federica Sona

 

16:00               Welcome

 

16:05               Prof. Marie-Claire Foblets

Introductory remarks and presenation of the project 

 

16:10               Prof. Shai Lavi

Is medicalization secular? Lessons from male circumcision in Germany, Israel and Turkey

Session I

 

Chair - Prof. Shai Lavi

 

16:25               Ms. Jeanise Dalli

Cultural vs. non-cultural genital interventions in Malta and the UK: Exploring regulatory approaches thereon

 

16:35               Dr. Stefano Osella

The medicalization of gender identity in Italian law: The complex history of a political concept

 

16:45               Dr. Alice Margaria

Trans-men giving birth: Rethinking legal fatherhood

 

 

 

16:55               Questions & Answers

 

17:10               Coffee break

 

Session II

 

Chair - Prof. Shai Lavi

 

17:20               Prof. Barshack Lior

Biomedical practices and the anthropology of descent

 

17:30               Prof. Gamal Serour

Assisted reproductive technology

 

17:40   .           Dr. Federica Sona

Mind the gap! Medically assisted procreation amongst biotechnologies, Italian normativity, Islamic ruling and Muslim practices

 

17:50               Questions & Answers

 

18:05               Coffee break

 

Session III

 

Chair - Prof. Shai Lavi

 

18:15               Dr. Hagai Boas

Religion at play: How religion turned from an inhibitor to organ donation to its biggest engine?

 

18:25               Dr. Farrah Raza

Ethical pluralism in organ donation ethics committees: A case study of the former UK Donation Ethics Committee

 

18:35               Prof. Hashiloni Dolev

 

The politics of the end of life during the Covid-19 pandemic in Israel: What has happened to the tug of war between the religious sanctity of life value and the bioethical principle of the patient’s autonomy?

 

18:45               Questions & Answers

 

 

 

Session IV

 

Chair - Dr. Federica Sona

 

19:00               Roundtable with contributions from all the participants

 

19:20               Prof. Marie-Claire Foblets

Concluding remarks

 

19:30               End of meeting