The European Society For Philosophy Of Medicine And Healthcare

Conference organised by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH) and Central and East European Association for Bioethics (CEEAB).

The focus of the conference is on philosophical and ethical issues in relation to European integration, particularly in the area of medicine and healthcare. Abstracts are invited, addressing the following topics:

• development of medical philosophy and bioethics
• institutionalisation of philosophy and ethics in healthcare
• harmonisation of medical research regulation
• human rights and healthcare
• solidarity and healthcare
• just healthcare
• the gap between 'academic' and 'bureaucratic' bioethcs
• commercialisation in healthcare
• patenting and genetics
• genetic/health related data bases
• research and personal data
• use of biological materials
• (future) European guidelines in biomedical research

The programme of the conference includes plenary sessions as well as parallel sessions. Papers will be selected from abstracts submitted to the Conference Program Committee

Papers addressing the philosophical, ethical and historical dimensions of the conference topic are welcomed. Persons wishing to present papers at the conference should submit an abstract (500 words maximum) before December 1, 2002. Kindly send abstracts - as well on diskette in Word or through e-mail - to:

Conference organisation:
Prof. dr. Henk ten Have, ESPMH Secretariat

Dept. of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine,

University Medical Centre Nijmegen

PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Email: h.tenhave@efg.umcn.nl