Ms. Faisha Mae Tangog, a student of Dr. Rogelio Bayod at Cor Jesu College, will be a co-presentor with her mentor Dr. Bayod, in the 21st Asian Bioethics Conference this coming August 29 to September 1, 2021. They will present the paper "Defending Moral Obligation: Duterte's Dauntless War on Drugs." The ABC will be participated in by bioethicists, medical researchers, and public health experts from the US, Japan, Germany, India, New Zealand, and Malaysia, among others. This year's conference will deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.
By Menelito Mansueto (MSU-IIT) Christopher Ryan Maboloc is a Davao-based Filipino scholar known for his work in Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Philippine Democracy, and the Philosophy of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. His body of work often engages with topics of social justice, structural inequality, and political ethics, particularly in the context of the Philippines. An Erasmus Mundus scholar, the author was trained in political party building and democratic governance at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. Dr. Maboloc is the author of three books, Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte, The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory, and The Politics of Peace & the Mindanao Problem. He is the editor of the two-volume Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society, a collection of essays by Filipino scholars and academics, notably from Minda...