Friday, November 09, 2007
NVBe prize on bioethics for member 3TU.Ethics
Mark Coeckelbergh, member of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology, has together with Jessica Mesman from the University of Maastricht received the NVBe prize 2007 from the Dutch Association for Bioethics (NVBe). The prize was awarded for their article on moral imagination and neonatal care (Coeckelbergh & Mesman 2007, published in Ethical Theory & Moral Practice). The prize consists of 1500 and has been awarded to the winners on the annual member meeting of the NVBe that took place on November 8, 2007.
The jury report speaks of an article that contributes to overcoming the infertile disagreements in ethics, that is recognizable for people working in neonatal care, that is interdisciplinary strong and that is original because philosophy and empiricism are being combined in an interesting and challenging way. The conclusion is: empirical ethics at its best!.
The NVBe tries to stimulate ethical debate in Dutch hospitals, ethical committees, schools, magazine and other organizations by awarding the NVBe prize once in every three years to an innovative contribution to this debate. Entries can consist of an article, but also a film or computer program, a project that has been executed within a health care institution or an educational module in the area of bioethics. The most important criterion for the independent jury is the degree to which the entrants have contributed to stimulating ethical debate in relevant sectors of science and society. In addition, the jury pays attention to topicality, originality and attractiveness of methods used.
