Final Programme, July 2003
XVIIth EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE
August 21-23, 2003,
University Campus, Vilnius
Lithuania
"EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS OF HEALTHCARE"
PROGRAMME
Location: University Campus, Vilnius
Thursday, August 21, 2003
| 8.00 - 9.00 a.m.: |
Registration |
| 9.00 - 9.15 p.m.: |
Opening ceremony
- Prof. dr. Eugenijus Gefenas
- Prof.dr.Lennart Nordenfelt, President of ESPMH
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| 09.15 - 10.00: |
Plenary session
Chair: Nordenfelt (Sweden)
- Eugenijus Gefenas (Lithuania): Is the dialogue between 'academic' and 'institutional' bioethics possible?
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| 10.00 - 10.30: |
Coffee break |
| SESSION 1.1 |
Rights and Regulations |
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Chair: Pierre Mallia (Malta) |
| 10.30 - 11.00: |
Monique F. Jonas (UK): What IVF mix-ups can teach us about parental rights |
| 11.00 - 11.30: |
Eimantas Peicius (Lithaunia): Implementations of patient's rights in primary care services in Lithuania |
| 11.30 - 12.00: |
Nancy Yanes-Hoffman & W. Logan-Young (USA), Partnering with patients and respecting their rights: Telling patients their mammographic results while they are in the clinic. |
| 12.00 - 12.30: |
Aranus Germanavicius, Robertas Poviliatis, Dainius Puras & Robert van Voren (Lithuania): Implementing regulations for corporate sponsorship |
| 12.30 - 14.00: |
Lunch |
| SESSION 1.2 |
Development of Medical Philosophy |
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Chair: Zbigniew Szawarski (Poland) |
| 10.30 - 11.00: |
William Stempsey (USA): The philosophy of medicine: development of a discipline |
| 11.00 - 11.30: |
Ingrid Hanssen (Norway): From human ability to ethical principle: An intercultural perspectives on autonomy |
| 11.30 - 12.00: |
Bert Gordijn (The Netherlands): History and status quo of medical utopian thought |
| 12.00 - 12.30: |
Raimo Puustinen, Mikael Leiman & Anna Maria Viljanen (Finland): Medicine and the Humanities - Theoretical and methodological issues |
| 12.30 - 14.00: |
Lunch |
| SESSION 1.3 |
Deontology in Health Care - Kant and his critics |
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Chair: Nikola. Biller-Andorno and Friedrich Heubel (Germany) |
| 10.30 - 11.00: |
Nikola Biller-Andorno (Germany): Kantian moral theory in medical ethics - a critical analysis |
| 11.00 - 11.30: |
Michio Miyasaka (Japan): Resourcifying human beings - objectivity and subjectivity |
| 11.30 - 12.00: |
Friedrich Heubel (Germany): Deontology and utilitarianism - what includes what? |
| 12.30 - 14.00: |
Lunch |
| SESSION 2.1 |
Moral Boundaries |
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Chair: Renzo Pegoraro (Italy) |
| 14.00 - 14.30: |
Cristian Hick (Germany): Drawing the line? A case study on the problem of moral boundaries |
| 14.30 - 15.00: |
Andrius Narbekovas (Lithuania): The difference between allowing to die and euthanasia |
| 15.00 - 15.30: |
Carlo Leget (The Netherlands): Respecting boundaries: philosophical reflections on a European selling point |
| 15.30 - 16.00: |
Aiko Sawada (Japan): Holocaust and difficulty in transmitting Holocaust memories |
| 16.00 - 16.30: |
Tea Break |
| SESSION 2.2 |
Institutionalisation of philosophy and ethics in healthcare |
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Chair: Jochen Vollmann (Germany) |
| 14.00 - 14.30: |
Michael Fuchs (Germany): National Bioethics-Committees in Europe |
| 14.30 - 15.00: |
Sventlana Vekovshynina (Ukraine): Medical Ethics in Ukraine: from soviet deontology to bioethics |
| 15.00 - 15.30: |
Zita Liubaskiené (Lithuania): Education of medical ethics in Lithuania: Training for medical practice |
| 15.30 - 16.00: |
Jochen Vollmann & Axel Weidtmann (Germany): Institutionalisation of clinical ethics at German University Hospital |
| 16.00 - 16.30: |
Tea Break |
| SESSION 2.3 |
The expert patient |
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Chair: Stephen Tyreman (U.K.) |
| 14.00 - 14.30: |
S. Holm (UK): Justifying patient self-management - evidence based medicine or the primacy of the first person perspective |
| 14.30 - 15.00: |
S. Tyreman (UK): The expert patient: Clarifying roles and expectations |
| 15.00 - 15.30: |
D. Badcott (UK): The expert patient: Valid recognition or false hope? |
| 16.00 - 16.30: |
Tea Break |
| SESSION 3.1 |
Development of bioethics |
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Chair: Soren Holm (U.K.) |
| 16.30 - 17.00: |
Aive Pevkur (Estonia): Pluralistic approach to medical ethics |
| 17.00 - 17.30: |
Gerald Neitzke (Germany): A procedural model of global medical ethics |
| 17.30 - 18.00: |
Reet Arnman (Sweden): How medical ethics came to be an enterprise within bounds of philosophical theories |
| 19.00 p.m |
Conference dinner in Trakai castle (30 km outside of Vilnius) |
| SESSION 3.2 |
Reflective practices |
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Chair: Henk ten Have (The Netherlands) |
| 16.30 - 17.00: |
Maaike Hermsen (The Netherlands): Decision-making in palliative care practice and the need for moral deliberation |
| 17.00 - 17.30: |
Mark Sheehan (UK): Narrative and general practice decision-making |
| 17.30 - 18.00: |
Mark Sheehan (UK): Narrative and general practice decision-making |
| 18.00 - 18.30: |
Bert Molewijk, (The Netherlands): Implicit normativity of medical information on the internet. A plea for empirical ethics research |
| 19.00 p.m |
Conference dinner in Trakai castle (30 km outside of Vilnius) |
| SESSION 3.3 |
Philosophy and medicine |
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Chair: Gerrit Kimsma (The Netherlands) |
| 16.30 - 17.00: |
Ingemar Nordin (Sweden): Science and alternative medicine |
| 17.00 - 17.30: |
Jiri Simek & V. Spalek (Czech Republic): Can contemporary philosophy offer a comprehensive concept of human being? Do we need it? |
| 17.30 - 18.00: |
Stephen Tyreman (UK), Causation as a Fundamental Concept in Health. Care: Is it time to re-assess its conceptual basis? |
| 19.00 p.m |
Conference dinner in Trakai castle (30 km outside of Vilnius) |
Friday, August 22, 2003
| Plenary session |
Philosophy and medicine |
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Chair: Renzo Pegoraro (Italy), Eugenijus Gefenas (Lithuania) |
| 08.30-09.30: |
Vilhjamur Arnason (Iceland): Coding or consent? Consent issues in Iceland |
| SESSION 4.1 |
Biomedical research |
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Chair: Nikola Biller-Andorno |
| 09.30 - 10.00: |
Soren Holm (UK): Official European responses to human embryonic stem cell research - a critical analysis |
| 10.00 - 10.30: |
Tomas Tamulis (USA): New systematic approach for evaluating the ethics in biomedical research |
| 10.30 - 11.00: |
Kirsi Vähäkangas (Finland): Evaluation of the ethics of molecular epidemiology studies |
| 11.00 - 11.30: |
Coffee Break |
| 11.30 - 12.00: |
Nikola Biller-Andorno (Germany): Clinical trials of pregnant women - between protection and discrimination |
| 12.00 - 12.30: |
Kristina Lukauskaite (UK): Ensuring informed consent in biomedical trials in Lithuania |
| 12.30 - 13.00: |
M. Sutrop (Estonia): Population databases: the Estonian case |
| 13.00 - 13.30: |
Kristina Lukauskaite (UK): Ensuring informed consent in biomedical trials in Lithuania |
| 13.30 - 14.00: |
Lunch |
| SESSION 4.2 |
Disease and illness |
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Chair: Lennart Nordenfelt (Sweden) |
| 09.30 - 10.00: |
Frederik Svenaeus (Sweden): The phenomenology of illness: meaning, otherness and time |
| 10.00 - 10.30: |
Thomas Krause (Germany): Organ and organisation: The institutionalisation of mental illness |
| 10.30 - 11.00: |
Wim Dekkers (The Netherlands): Is Alzheimer's Disease a genetic disease? |
| 11.00 - 11.30: |
Coffee Break |
| 11.30 - 12.00: |
Ernst H. Hische (Germany): Pathographies as a challenge for medical ethics |
| 12.00 - 12.30: |
Nancy Yanes-Hoffman (USA): When the Doctor is the patient's: myths that may compromise preventive and critical care given to physician-patients undergoing bypass surgery |
| 12.30 - 13.00: |
Konstantin S. Khroutski (Russia): Introducing the notion of "Civilised man's diseases": philosophical substantiation |
| 13.00 - 13.30: |
Lennart Nordenfelt (Sweden): Health and welfare in the world of animals and humans |
| 13.30 - 14.00: |
Lunch |
| SESSION 4.3 |
Organisational ethics |
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Chair: Renzo Pegoraro (Italy) |
| 09.30 - 10.00: |
I. Jakusovaité (Lithuania): The ethical problems of managing change in health care in Lithuania |
| 10.00 - 10.30: |
Martin A. Strosberg (USA): Implementation of organisational ethics programs: The role of top-level managers |
| 10.30 - 11.00: |
Martien Pijnenburg (The Netherlands): Moral identity of healthcare institutions |
| 11.00 - 11.30: |
Coffee Break |
| 11.30 - 12.00: |
Renzo Pegoraro (Italy): European integration or annexation or opportunism? Ethical issues and perspectives for healthcare |
| 12.00 - 12.30: |
Carol Stenulis Taylor (USA): Ethics, moral agency and integrity. The why and how of an institutional ethics program |
| 12.30 - 13.00: |
Jiri Simek (Czech Republic): Medical ethics in the Czech Republic |
| 13.00 - 13.30: |
Lennart Nordenfelt (Sweden): Health and welfare in the world of animals and humans |
| 13.30 - 14.00: |
Lunch |
| SESSION 5.1 |
Evidence-based practice |
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Chair: Gerrit Kimsma (The Netherlands) |
| 14.30 - 15.00: |
Angus Dawson (UK): Evidence based ethics |
| 15.00 - 15.30: |
Juho Nummenmaa (Finland): Clinical practice guidelines and general practitioner |
| 15.30 - 16.00: |
Mieke Janssen-Grypdonck (Belgium): Evidence based medicine: the ideology that violates its ideology |
| 16.00 - 16.30: |
Tea Break |
| 16.30 - 18.00: |
ESPMH General Assembly |
| 18.00: |
Dinner at Vilnius University |
| SESSION 5.2 |
Workshop East-East programme |
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Chair: Eugenijus Gefenas (Lithuania) |
Saturday, August 23, 2003
| SESSION 6.1 |
Body, (dis)ability and genetics |
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Chair: Pierre Mallia (Malta) |
| 09.30 - 10.00: |
David Badcott (U.K.): Patenting and genetics |
| 10.00 - 10.30: |
Stephen Wilkinson (U.K.): 'Gene patenting': a review of the case against |
| 10.30 - 11.00: |
Coffee Break |
| 11.00 - 11.30: |
Pekka Louhiala (Finland): How tall is too tall? The practice and ethics of estrogen treatment of tall girls |
| 11.30 - 12.00: |
Renzo Pegoraro (Italy): European integration or annexation or opportunism? Ethical issues and perspectives for healthcare |
| 12.00 - 12.30: |
Boleslav L. Lichterman (Russia): Which consent? Ethical dilemma in organ transplantation in Russia |
| 12.30 - 13.00: |
Alicja Przyluska-Fiszer (Poland): Ethical aspects of genetic screening and testing in the context of the disability rights movement |
| SESSION 6.2 |
Solidarity and justice |
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Chair: Zbigniew Szawarski (Poland) |
| 09.30 - 10.00: |
Michael Norup & Peter Rossel (Denmark): Solidarity in healthcare and concepts of disease |
| 10.00 - 10.30: |
Oliver Rauprich (Germany): Efficiency and justice in the system of rehabilitation in Germany |
| 10.30 - 11.00: |
Ewa Kalamacka (Poland): Healthcare for the elderly in Poland: Continuation or reversal? |
| 11.00 - 11.30: |
Coffee Break |
| 11.30 - 12.00: |
Robert Barnet (USA): Patient advocacy in the context of limits |
| 12.00 - 12.30: |
Nina Osvold (Norway): Professional ethics in times of health care reform |
| 12.30 - 13.00: |
Theano D. Kontopoulo (Greece): Commercialisation in health care: Gaining experience from the ancient Greek medicine and philosophy |
| SESSION 6.3 |
Solidarity, justice and end-of-life |
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Chair: Eugenijus Gefenas (Lithuania) |
| 09.30 - 10.00: |
Jan Hartman (Poland): Bioethicists against doctors: the basic struggle for acknowledgement |
| 10.00 - 10.30: |
Pavel Tishchenko (Russia): Temple and market place: on commercial biomedical science and moral expertise |
| 10.30 - 11.00: |
Larisa Kiyashchenko (Russia): Synergetic of phenomena of interdisciplinarity: The case of bioethics |
| 11.00 - 11.30: |
Coffee Break |
| 11.30 - 12.00: |
Guy Widdershoven (The Netherlands): Euthanasia in The Netherlands: Experience within a review committee |
| 12.00 - 12.30: |
NFuat Oduncu (Germany): Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide? A survey by the German association for palliative medicine |
| Plenary closing session |
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Minister of Health
President of ESPMH
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