Bioethics Links

Past Issues "Bioethics Links"

“Bioethics Links” is a newsletter published in English biannually (January and June of every year) by CBEC and is the only newsletter devoted purely to bioethics in Pakistan. The publication encompasses contemporary themes related to bioethics in Pakistan and also serves to inform the readers about various bioethics events conducted and attended by the faculty across the globe.
Contributors to the newsletter include core faculty, associate and invited faculty, alumni of CBEC programs and scholars who are invited to contribute to the newsletter.

Find below the entire collection of “Bioethics Links”.

Volume No. 15, Issue No 2 (December 2019)

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Volume No. 15, Issue No 2 (December 2019)

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Volume No. 16, Issue No 1 (June 2020)

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  • COVID-19: CBEC Activities
  • From Faculty Desks
  • From Colleagues
  • From Alumni and Students

Volume No. 15, Issue No 2 (December 2019)

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Volume No. 15, Issue No 1 (June 2019)

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Volume No. 14, Issue No 2 (December 2018)

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Volume No. 14, Issue No 1 (June 2018)

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Volume No. 13, Issue No 2 (December 2017)

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Volume No. 13, Issue No 1 (June 2017)

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Volume No. 12, Issue No 2 (December 2016)

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Volume No. 12, Issue No 1 (June 2016)

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Volume No. 11, Issue No 2 (December 2015)

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Volume No. 11, Issue No 1 (June 2015)

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Volume No. 10, Issue No 2 (December 2014)

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  • Drones: Aerial Assasins or Misunderstood Technology?
    Raja Sabri Khan
  • Please Let him go!
    Nida Wahid Bashir
  • CBEC review: Impressions and insights
    Aamir Jafarey
  • Reports

Volume No. 10, Issue No 1 (June 2014)

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  • Surrogacy in Pakistan: Legal perspectives
    Sharmeen Khan
  • Surrogacy and “third-party” donation in Iran: An overview
    Rubina Naqvi
  • A journey through testing times
    Mariam Hasan
  • International Team reviews CBEC as it turns Ten
    Anika Khan
  • Reports

Volume No. 9, Issue No 2 (December 2013)

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  • The Drug Industry and Doctors: an Unholy Alliance
    Sandhya Srinivasan
  • “CBEC-SIUT: ‘The Bridge’ over Troubled Karachi”
    Marisa de Andrade
  • Ethics Videos: A New Frontier for CBEC
    Aamir Jafarey
  • CBEC Conference: “Emerging Ethical Issues”
    Anika Khan
  • Foundation Module for the New Academic Year
  • Reports

Volume No. 9, Issue No 1 (June 2013)

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  • Ethics in Context: Case Studies in Pakistan
    James Dwyer
  • Bringing Ethics into Classrooms” – the first workshop for school teachers
    Anika Khan
  • PGD Alumni (Class of 2012) Projects
    Report
  • Academic Programs in Bioethics Commencing January 2014
    Report
  • Selected Publications by CBEC Faculty
    Report
  • CBEC and Bioethics Education: News from the National Front
    Report
  • New Informed Consents for SIUT
    Report
  • CBEC Conference on “Emerging Issues in Bioethics”
    Report
  • Ethics Exam at ZA School of Medical Technology
    Report

Volume No. 8, Issue No 2 (December 2012)

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  • Islam and Feminism: Opening a New Dialogue
    Ziba Mir-Hosseini
  • Bioethics in Kuala Lumpur
    Saima Pervaiz Iqbal
  • International Association of Bioethics Congress at Rotterdam
    Aamir Jafarey
  • CBEC Forum Meetings (2012)
    Report
  • CBEC Film Productions
    Report
  • KMU Research Ethics Workshop, November 29-30, 2012
    Report
  • Karachi Bioethics Group
    Report
  • I, Malala Yusufzai
    Nida Wahid Bashir

Volume No. 8, Issue No 1 (June 2012)

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  • Engaging days and ghazal nights: Ethics education in CBEC-SIUT
    Mala Ramanathan
  • Memoirs of the first international MBE student at CBEC
    Elizabeth A. Bukusi
  • Different ways of thinking
    S. H. Kolambage
  • Connecting Shari’a with emerging ethical issues
    Ismatullah
  • Unique learning environment in CBEC’s teaching module
    Shaista Khan
  • Makkah Clock Tower: “Meray liye mitti ka haram aur bana do”
    Faheem Khan
  • Peshawar Bioethics Group (PBG)
    Mumtaz Muhammad
  • Bioethics for first batch of Master in Health Research program
    Aamir Jafarey
  • Honour for CBEC-SIUT

Volume No. 7, Issue No 2 (December 2011)

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  • Bioethics in Pakistan: Foreign seeds in desi soil
    Aamir Jafarey
  • Taking Ethics to a Government Girls’ School in Pakistan
    Anika Khan
  • Patients’ Perceptions on being used as “Teaching Tools” for Medical Students: A Study from Pakistan
    Saima Perwaiz Iqbal
  • Influence of Culture and Language: Decision-making in Breast Cancer Patients
    Bushra Shirazi
  • “Bioethcs Education Conference, Bangkok”, November 9-11, 2011
  • International Conference at The Leiden University, the Netherlands, December 7-8, 2011
  • “EMRO-CBEC-PMRC National Workshop on Strengthening Ethical Review Committees”, November 17-19, 2011
  • Research Ethics Workshop at Fatima Memorial Hospital, Lahore, December 15-16, 2011
  • Next Academic Year Begins at the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture

Volume No. 7, Issue No 1 (June 2011)

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  • The Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Promoting a Different Kind of Value
    Asma Jehangir
  • Post-seminar Reflections: Bioethics and Religion?
    Farhat Moazam
  • Research Ethics Workshop, Saidu Sharif, Swat, May 13-14, 2011
    Aamir Jafarey
  • Northern Bypass Flood Relief Camp turns into the Indus Basti
    Anika Khan
  • First Batch of PGD Graduates to be awarded Diplomas from the Sindh Institute of Medical Sciences
  • Selection begins for next Batch of Students in CBEC’s Programs Academic Year Commences January 2012
  • CBEC Research Ethics Workshop

Volume No. 6, Issue No 2 (December 2010)

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  • Northern Bypass Camp: In the Wake of the Floods
    Anika Khan*
  • Blasphemy Chronicles
    Sharmeen Khan*
  • CBEC goes to India! The Third National Bioethics Conference, New Delhi, November 17 to 20, 2010
    Mariam Hasan*
  • Zehra Nigah connests Poetry and Ethics
  • Dr. Fox and Dr. Swazey “visit” CBEC
  • Recent (Selected) Internatiional Presentations by CBEC Faculty
  • CBEC International Bioethics Seminar, March 14 to 17, 2011

Volume No. 6, Issue No 1 (June 2010)

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  • On Democracy in Pakistan
    I. A. Rehman*
  • Different Moral Worlds
    Saima Iqbal, Bushra Shirazi, Anika Khan, Aamir Jafarey*
  • Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan dismisses petition against Transplantation of Organs and Tissues Law
    Farhat Moazam*
  • Standby: Camera, Action!
    Aamir M. Jafarey*
  • KBG Develops Ethical Guidelines for Physician Pharmaceutical Interactions
    Nida Wahid Bashir*

Volume No. 5, Issue No 2 (December 2009)

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  • Reflections on a Visit to Karachi: A Small World, After All
    Paul A. Lombardo*
  • The Hidden Jewel that is CBEC
    Humza Aasim Yusuf
  • Finding Hope in Unexpected Places
    Saamia Noorali*
  • CBEC Launches Masters in Bioethics (MBE) Program
  • PGD Class of 2010
  • NA unanimously Passes Transplant Bill
  • PGD Alumni Publications

Volume No. 5, Issue No 1 (June 2009)

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  • Research and Ethics: Partners not Adversaries
    Athula Samutipala*
  • CBEC’s Alumni go to Tehran
    Yasmin Wajahat*
  • Birth of a Bioethics Group in Ziauddin University, Karachi
    Nausheen Saeed*
  • PGD Alumni bring Bioethics to Medical Technologists in Karachi
    Moinuddin Siddiqui*
  • CBEC Announces Academic Program Commencing November, 2009
  • Recent CBEC publication in the Hastings Centre Report
  • A Journey of Centuries: By Ada Jafarey

Volume No. 4, Issue No 2 (December 2008)

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  • Peeping into Minds: Unethical Application of Science, Collusion of Health Professionals
    Amar Jesani*
  • Academic Plagiarism: Ignorance or Malice?
    Bushra Shirazi*
  • The Physician-Pharma Nexus: an Unholy Alliance?
    Aamir Jafarey*
  • Upcoming Bioethics Conferences
  • CBEC: Recent International Activities

Volume No. 4, Issue No 1 (June 2008)

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  • JEVAY PAKISTAN!
    Sahin Aksoy*
  • Building Networks: The Karachi Bioethics Group
    Nida Wahid Bashir *
  • CBEC hosts MRPS Meeting
  • World Congress of Bioethics
  • Asian Bioethics Conference
  • CBEC Graduates: Success Stories
    Aamir Jafarey *
  • Istanbul Summit on Organ Trafficking, Tourism and Commerce
    April 30 to May 2, 2008
  • Asian Task Force on Organ Trafficking in Asia Submits Report

Volume No. 3, Issue No 2 (Dec 2007)

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  • Nadia’s Dream. Will it Come True?
    Zubeida Mustafa
  • Distance Learning Component, CBEC’s Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Biomedical Ethics
    ” Cyber Talk”
  • My Trial
    Translation of Perveen Shakir’s Poetry
  • Farhat Moazam Elected Fellow of The Hastings Centre, USA
  • Recent International Links
  • Presentations by Graduates of PGD, Class of 2006
  • Publications and Presentations by Students of PGD, Class of 2007
  • CBEC’s Postgraduate Diploma in Biomedical Ethics, Class of 2008

Volume No. 3, Issue No 1 (May 2007)

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  • Reflections on Our Mind Set
    Manzoor Ahmed*
  • Battling Kidney Trade in Pakistan: The Struggle Continues
    Farhat Moazam*
  • The First 14 Healthcare Professionals in Pakistan receive Diplomas in Biomedical Ethics
    Aamir Jafarey*
  • SIUT’s Volunteer Program for School Children
  • PGD Graduates of 2006 and their Ethics Projects
  • Eighth Asian Bioethics Conference, Thailand, Bangkok
  • PGD Class 2007

Volume No. 2, Issue No 2 (October 2006)

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  • Teaching Ethics through the Arts
    Amber Romasa Nagori*
  • “Too Little for Too Few”: Dilemmas of Treating HIV/AIDS in South Africa
    Renee C. Fox*
  • Cricket and Ethics
    Saad Shafqat*
  • “Muslim Voices from the East Mediterranean Region” at The 8th Congress, International Association of Bioethics (IAB), Beijing, China (August 4-9, 2006 ) Bioethics (IAB), Beijing, China (August 4-9, 2006 )
    Farhat Moazam*
  • Recent CBEC Faculty Publications

Volume No. 2, Issue No 1 (May 2006)

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  • “The Class of 2006 “, An Interim Report
    Aamir Jafarey*
  • PGD Student Assignments ” Vani in True Perspective”, A Critique
    Inayat Ullah Memon*
  • PGD Web Discussions”School Girl Loses Legal Battle””Plagiarism””Conflict between Conscience and Job Obligation”

    “Suicide Bombing”

    “Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer”

    “Religious Education For Children”

    “FDA Dismisses Medical Benefit from Marijuana”

    “65 km at 5; Isn’t this child abuse?”

  • Dr. Faisal Ghani Siddiqui
    gives the first lecture on Biomedical Ethics at LUMHS, Hyderabad
  • Mr. Abdul Ghani takes Bioethics to PTV Bolan, Balochistan

Volume No. 1, Issue No 3 (December 2005)

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  • Familiar Battles for Bioethics: Facing off over Transplantation
    Paul A. Lombardo*
  • Kidney Trade and Transplant Tourism: Pakistan, the Emerging Leader
    Farhat Moazam*
  • Cadaveric Organ Donation and the Role of Family
    Alireza Bagheri*

Volume No. 1, Issue No 2 (August 2005)

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  • CBEC Activity Report (2005-2006)
    Aamir Jafarey*
  • National Academy of Sciences, USA: Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
    Farhat Moazam*
  • Islamic Perspectives on Abortion
    Farhat Moazam*
  • Legal Aspects of Abortion: An International Overview
    Sharmeen Ali Khan*

Volume No. 1, Issue No 1 (April 2005)

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  • About CBEC
    Farhat Moazam*
  • “Foundations of Moral Thought: from the Greeks to Contemporary Bioethics.” First International Seminar and Intensive Course
  • International Conference, IOMS, Cairo. “Islamic Code for Medical and Health Ethics”
    Farhat Moazam*
  • International Conference, GFBR, Malawi. “Sixth Global Forum for Bioethics in Research”
    Aamir Jafarey*