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Developing Teaching Materials on Bioethics
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Eubios Ethics Institute (Japan)
Professor Macer of the Eubios Ethics Institute will develop teaching materials on bioethics (first edition), with the help of high school teachers in Japan, China, India, New Zealand, Philippines, Thailand, and the UK.
April to August 2003:
The Eubios Ethics Institute and the teachers around the world will discuss and decide the themes to be included in the textbook, as well as the allocation of duties. Once these points have been agreed on, they will begin the process of compiling the textbook.
September to December 2003:
The textbook will introduce case studies on about twenty themes. In order to aid understanding and promote thinking on each of the case studies, ten or so supplementary questions will also be included. Some of the themes to be included are "animal experimentation", "genetic tests, privacy and insurance companies", "informed consent", "genetically modified foods", "pre-birth examinations and downs syndrome", "cross-species transplants", and "brain death and organ donation."
As each of the chapters are completed, they will be tried out in high school classrooms in Japan and abroad. The reactions in the classrooms will be taken into account, and the necessary changes/alterations made
January to March 2004:
3000 copies of the first edition of the text will be published and distributed to teachers at home and abroad who cooperated in the project.
（First year of a 2-year project）
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