Moral Understandings of the ‘Wish to Die’ and Ethical Implications

Based on the results of a qualitative interview study that was conducted with 31 participating palliative care patients 2008-2011 in different palliative care situations in Switzerland, the conference explores terminally ill oncology patients’ and their caregivers’ perspectives on the phenomenon of a ‘wish to die’. Key ethical issues and consequences for palliative care practice shall be identified and discussed using different normative, narrative, hermeneutic, relational and phenomenological approaches to biomedical ethics.

For more information:

www.hospizimpark.ch

Please find attached the announcement of the European Clinical Ethics Network Summer school on Clinical Ethics Support Services, 2-8 September 2012 and the application form. The venue will be in the Italian Dolomites.

More information is also available at: http://www.vumc.com/afdelingen/Medical-Humanities/MoralCaseDeliberation

Deadline 31 march 2012

Dealing with children in clinical practice, research, or public health practice presents unique questions that call for special attention and which require an interdisciplinary approach in order to be sufficiently addressed. The social, medical, legal and philosophical context in which pediatrics is practiced plays a critical role in what kinds of ethical questions we are asking and definitely in how we respond to them. Pediatrics ethics is faced with the challenge to provide conceptual and methodological approaches in how to approach them as well as with the request for practical recommendations. The goal of this international and interdisciplinary workshop is to review some of the current debates in the field and examine where pediatric ethics is today and where it is going.

The World Medical Association is pleased to invite proposals for papers for presentation at the satellite meeting Thinking ahead – The Future of the Declaration of Helsinki Rotterdam, 26/6/2012, 9 am – 4 pm, The Manhattan Hotel.

The Declaration of Helsinki is one of the most important international ethical regulations of biomedical research. It has been revised several times since its adoption in Helsinki in 1964. As a “living document”, it is continuously adapted to new developments and challenges in biomedical research. In 2011, the General Assembly of the World Medical Association decided to start a new process of revision. The WMA hence invites experts to share their views on the possible need for a revision of the Declaration of Helsinki at this satellite symposium. The WMA thereby wants to closely involve the bioethical science community in the ongoing discussion process of this upcoming revision.

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Bioethics in the field: The social (re)production of bioethics in diverse cultural contexts

Guest Editors Patricia Kingori, Kristina Orfali and Raymond de Vries

Social Science & Medicineis seeking papers for a Special Issue that explores how the practical work of bioethics is undertaken in different cultural spaces.

The deadline for submissions is 31st January 2012. Authors should submit online at

http://ees.elsevier.com/ssm/

Dates: 19-23 March 2012

Location: Woodbrookershuis, Barchem, The Netherlands

Application deadline: December 12, 2011

The Netherlands Research School for Practical Philosophy (Onderzoekschool Ethiek) and the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University invite you to a five-day winter school on Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, from 19-23 March 2012. This intensive course will be held at the Woodbrookershuis in Barchem, the Netherlands. The aim of this course, open for PhD students and Research Master students, is to give an overview of current debates in practical philosophy. The course focuses on the role of different normative theories in applied contexts, methodology and justification of normative positions.

The preliminary programme for the course can be found on http://www.ozse.nl (/Education/Courses). If you have any questions, please email ozse@ethics.uu.nl (with a cc to J.Zijm@uu.nl)

Ein pluralistisches Theorieverständnis, methodische Vielfalt, eine Vielzahl von Untersuchungsgegenständen sowie die hohe Bedeutung der Individualforschung zeichnen die Geisteswissenschaften aus. Zunehmend gerät dieses Wissenschaftsverständnis in Kollision mit Megatrends in anderen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen und mit wissenschafts- und forschungspolitischen Vorgaben.

Mit der Tagung soll eine disziplinenübergreifende Debatte über die künftige Position der Geisteswissenschaften lanciert werden; sie bildet den Auftakt für weiterführende Aktivitäten.

Transnational and Transdisciplinary Bioethical and Biopolitical Concerns

International symposium at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, 10-12 April 2012

This international and interdisciplinary symposium addresses how cultural, medical and political understandings of the self are shifting and changing in contemporary societies. It explores how humanness is imagined and conceived in various symbolic systems of knowledge, and how gender, disability, class and ethnicity articulate these understandings. With a particular focus on how ideas of the flesh and national identity reconfigure experiences of the embodied self, the symposium aims to bring together scholars whose work engages with issues that range from medical and cultural technologies, globalisation, migration and neoliberalism to phenomenology and ethics, political ideologies and subjectivities, and theories of social transformation.

If you would like to participate, please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a brief biography (max. 100 words) to Suvi Salmenniemi (suvi.salmenniemi@helsinki.fi) and Donna McCormack (donna.mccormack@helsinki.fi) by 1st December 2011.

For more information, see: http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/rethinking-the-self.htm

The Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine and the National Center for Tumor Disease (NCT) from the University of Heidelberg will be hosting an international and multidisciplinary expert meeting on “New issues in Ethics and Oncology” in Heidelberg (Germany) .

This expert meeting will take place at May 11 and May 12 , 2012.

Deadline to submit abstracts: November 31, 2011.

For more information, see the attached document.

Vorankündigung und Call for papers

Die SGBE organisiert wie jedes Jahr im Herbst ein Seminar für Vorstandsmitglieder, Gäste und Fachleute, die sich für Fragen der biomedizinischen Ethik interessieren. Hauptziel des Seminars ist das gegenseitige Vorstellen und die Diskussion aktueller Forschungsprojekte.

Themenvorschläge für die Präsentation eines Forschungsprojektes können bis 15. Oktober 2011 mit einem Abstract eingereicht werden. Vorgesehen sind 20minütige Präsentationen mit anschliessender Diskussion (das Programm räumt genügend Diskussionszeit ein). Die Auswahl und das definitive Programm werden ende Oktober bekanntgegeben.

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