XIX^th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

24 - 27 August, 2005
Barcelona, Spain

"Ethics and Philosophy
of Emerging Medical Technologies"

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

This conference will be organised by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH), the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) and the Institut Borja de Bioetica, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain.




The focus of the conference is on ethical and philosophical issues in relation to emerging medical technologies. Abstracts addressing the ethical and philosophical dimensions of the following topics can be submitted:

• Philosophy of Technology
  
• Confidentiality and Technology: ethical and legal rights and duties
  
• Therapy versus Enhancement
  
• Responsibility for Future Generations
  
• Sustainability
  
• Cloning
  
• Germ Line Interventions
  
• Bioelectronics
  
• Interventions in Biological Aging
  
• Tissue Engineering
  
• Psychopharmacology
  
• Neurosciences
  
• Nanomedicine
  
• Medical Utopianism
  
• The Future of Medicine
  
• Posthumanity
  

The program of the conference includes plenary sessions as well as parallel sessions. Persons wishing to present papers at the conference are invited to submit an abstract addressing the ethical and philosophical dimensions of the conference topics (500 words maximum) before January 1, 2005. Papers will be selected from the abstracts by the Conference Program Committee. Please send abstracts (on diskette in Word or through E-mail) to:

Conference organisation:


Dr. Bert Gordijn, Secretary of the ESPMH

Dept. of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine

University Medical Centre Nijmegen

PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Emails: b.gordijn@efg.umcn.nl;d.verhaar@efg.umcn.nl