Because you want the chance to have a two-year membership of the IAB, because you want to use your new umbrella, because you feel it is your moral duty, because you want to see the magnificent harbour of Rotterdam from a boat, because you want to make sure that there are also plenary speakers of the female gender, because you want to do empirical research, because you want to see if the Dutch are indeed very liberal, because you want to buy tulips for your garden on the way back, because you’d hate to disappoint the organisers, because you have heard that there will be around 50 symposia (all of excellent quality), because you have heard that there will be a special Spanish and Portuguese session, because there will be interesting satellite meetings (FAB and WMA), because the Dutch are allowed to use their mother tongue but they all are convinced their English is very good and you want to count mistakes, because you like Gouda cheese and Heineken beer, because you like Dutch coffee (in which case you probably are Dutch), because one would not want to miss the anniversary conference.

THINKING AHEAD
Bioethics and the Future, and the Future of Bioethics

From June 26^th till June 29^th 2012 Erasmus MC Rotterdam will host the 11^th conference of the International Association of Bioethics: THINKING AHEAD, Bioethics and the Future, and the Future of Bioethics.
This conference will discuss key issues relevant for the future, including future technologies in health care, ethics and research in developing countries, synthetic biology, enhancement, life-prolonging strategies, environmental issues, the moral responsibility for future generations, food and ethics, and public health.
Thinking ahead of course requires looking back, what have we learned in the past, which lessons have we not learned, what can contemporary bioethics show us for tomorrow.

The IAB conferences are an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of moral views, practices, and insights in methodologies, where established and young bio-ethicists meet.
20 years after the IAB founding conference in Amsterdam, the IAB World Conference of Bioethics returns to the Netherlands.

We look forward to welcome you in 2012!

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