The Council’s message to the Government: medical age assessment in the asylum process needs to be objectively examined
The Council has sent a letter to the Department of Justice concerning medical age assessment in the asylum process.
Watch the film from the conference: Artificial intelligence in health care
The aim of the conference was to illuminate how artificial intelligence might change healthcare and what ethical challenges the development brings with it.
Ethics conference 2018: Artificial intelligence in healthcare. What are the opportunities? Ethical challenges?
The Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics arranges this year's ethics Conference the 6th of December 2018. Welcome!
Smer’s report on assisted dying now available in English
Smer has published an English translation of the council's inventory of the current knowledge on assisted dying.
Smer calls for the government to review the current legislation on gene technology
Since the Genetic Integrity Act (2006:351) came into force 2006, new technologies have been developed that are not covered by the law. According to Smer, there is a need for a national strategy for the field of gene technology in order to promote an ethically sustainable and safe developement where respect for human dignity is preserved.