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conference programme
XVIth EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE
Final Programme, July 2002
August 21-24, 2002,
Suncrest Hotel, Qawra
Malta
Suncrest Hotel, Qawra
Malta
"EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTHCARE AND BIOETHICS"
PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME
Location: Suncrest Hotel, Qawra, Malta.
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
| 15.00 - 16.00 | Registration |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Opening ceremony Chair: Maurice Cauchi and Lennart Nordenfelt * Prof.dr. Maurice Cauchi, President of the National Bioethics Consultative Committee of Malta * Prof.dr.Lennart Nordenfelt, President of ESPMH |
| 16.30 - 18.00 | Plenary session * Prof.dr.Emanuel Agius (Malta),: Euromediterrranean ethics * Prof. John Harris (UK): Are there typically European approaches to bioethics? |
| 19.00 | Departure for Welcome Reception |
| 19.30 | Reception - Upper Gardens, Valletta (Grand Harbor view) |
Thursday, August 22, 2002
| 09.00-10.00 | Plenary session Chair: Emmanuel Agius and Henk ten Have * Prof. Dr Joe Friggieri (Malta): Foucault: the body and the person * Pierre Mallia (Malta): Phenomenological approaches to the doctor - patient relationship |
| 10.00 - 14.30 | Parallel sessions |
| SESSION 1 | Ethical theory and clinical practice Chair: Nicola Biller |
| 10.00-10.30 | Reet Arnman (Sweden): No single ethical theory is enough for the complexity of clinical practice |
| 10.30-11.00 | Vivi H. Anvik (Norway): Making ethics apparent through narrative |
| 11.00-11.30 | Rolf Ahlzen (Sweden): Hermeneutical skills: are literary texts the clue? |
| 11.30-12.00 |
H. van der Bruggen and G. Widdershoven (the Netherlands): Being a Parkinson's patient: immobile and unpredictable whimsical. Literature and existential analysis |
| 12.00-12.30 | Coffee break |
| 12.30-13.00 | Shigeo Nagaoka (Japan): A positive value of a stranger physician |
| 13.00-13.30 |
Ruth H. Olsen (Norway): When the workday became dispirited - how does this affect the nurses experience in the situation and understanding of nursing? |
| 13.30-14.00 | Adrian Barnes (United Kingdom): Am I carer or do I care? |
| 14.00-14.30 | Michael Barilan (Israel): The fifth principle, toward an internal morality of medicine |
| SESSION 2.1 | Health and disease Chair: Lennart Nordenfelt |
| 10.00-10.30 | Edvin Schei, (Norway): Why can't patients just say what they want |
| 10.30-11.00 | Ewa Kalamacka (Poland): A historical reflection on the theory of health and disease |
| 11.00-11.30 | Luc Faucher (Canada): Mental disorders, meet developmental system theory |
| 12.00-12.30 | Coffee break |
| SESSION 2.2 | Expanding the EU: problems of candidate countries Chair: Renzo Pegoraro |
| 12.30-13.00 | Şefik Görkey (Turkey): What should be done in Turkey as a candidate country to European Union |
| 13.00-13.30 | Zbigniew Szawarski (Poland): "A right to gratitude" or the problems of corruption in a health care system |
| 13.30-14.00 | Gürkan Sert, Şefik Görkey (Turkey): Patients rights in Turkey |
| 14.00-14.30 | Jan Hartman (Poland): Poor medicine joining EU |
| SESSION 3 | Justice and resource allocation Chair: Gerrit Kimsma |
| 10.00-10.30 | Vilhjalmur Arnason (Iceland): Justice and Solidarity in the Nordic Health Care Systems |
| 10.30-11.00 | Michio Miyasaka (Japan): A broader definition of justice in global bioethics |
| 11.00-11.30 | Lars Peter Osterdal (Denmark): Ethical allocation of health care resources |
| 11.30-12.00 | Zbigniew Zalewski (Poland): Ethics and politics in healthcare: Polish experience with transformation of healthcare system |
| 12.00-12.30 | Coffee break |
| 12.30-13.00 | Andres Hasman (United Kingdom): Medical need - a useful tool in the allocation of scarce health care resources? |
| SESSION 4 | Genetics Chair: Soren Holm |
| 10.00-10.30 | Richard Ashcroft (United Kingdom): Ethics and power in clinical genetics |
| 10.30-11.00 |
U.G. Stolt & J. Ludvigsson (Sweden): Bioethical theory and clinical practice - results from a research ethical case study of a Swedish research screening project for pre-diabetes. |
| 11.00-11.30 | Anders Nordgren (Sweden): Metaphors in behavioral genetics |
| 11.30-12.00 | Discussion |
| 12.00-12.30 | Coffee break |
| 12.30-13.00 | M. Levitt (United Kingdom): The gene week: stimulating public debate on the ethical and social issues raised by the new genetics |
| 13.00-13.30 | Jeffrey H. Barker (USA): Common-pool resources and population genomics in Iceland, Great Britain, Sweden, and Estonia |
| 13.30-14.00 | Discussion |
14.30 Lunch - Is. Sajjied restaurant at Marsaxlokk
Afternoon Excursions
There will be optional excursions to Valetta in the morning for partners.
Friday, August 23, 2002
| 09.00-10.00 | Plenary session Chair: Maurice Cauchi and Renzo Pegoraro * Prof. dr Henk ten Have (the Netherlands); Bioethics, genetics and Internet |
| 10.00-12.00 | Parallel sessions |
| SESSION 5 | Dignity and health care Chair: Zbigniew Szawarski |
| 10.00-10.30 | Lennart Nordenfelt (Sweden): Dignity and the elderly |
| 10.30-11.00 | Matti Häyry (United Kingdom, Finland): Dignity, precaution, solidarity. Towards a European approach to bioethics |
| 11.00-11.30 |
M. Strätling et al. (Germany): Increasing challenges to medical ethics and legislation. A survey of present developments in Germany concerning patient self-determination and surrogate decision making |
| 11.30-12.00 | Discussion |
| SESSION 6 | Information and communication Chair: Pierre Mallia |
| 10.00-10.30 | Nikola Biller-Andorno (Germany): Informed consent - a cross-cultural concept in bioethics? |
| 10.30-11.00 | Michael Norup et al. (Denmark): The patients right to self-determination and the need of information |
| 11.00-11.30 | Henriette S. Nielsen et al. (Denmark): What do general practitioners tell their patients about side effects to common treatment? |
| 11.30-12.00 | Discussion |
| SESSION 7 | The role of history in European medicine and ethics Chair: Soren Holm |
| 10.00-10.30 | Theano Kontopoulou et al. (Greece): The role of God Asclepios in ancient Greek medicine |
| 10.30-11.00 | Peter Kampits (Austria): Change of term of illness and health in the European tradition |
| 11.00-11.30 | Byron Kaldis (Greece): Could sociobiology provide answers to bioethical issues? |
| 11.30-12.00 | Discussion |
| SESSION 8 | Research Chair: Richard Ashcroft |
| 10.00-10.30 | Anne Gammelgaard (Denmark): Informed consent in acute myocardial infarction research |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Mehmet Karataş et al. (Turkey): Advancement of a local research ethics committee in Turkey: Marmara University faculty of medicine research ethics committee |
| 11.00-11.30 | Olga Khroutski (Russia): Pharmacy and bioethics: toward the "doctor of pharmacotherapy" in a drugstore |
| 11.30-12.00 | Judith Lee Kissell (U.S.A.): Research guidelines |
| 12.00-12.30 | Coffee break |
| 12.30-14.30 | General Assembly ESPMH |
| Afternoon Excursions | |
| 19.00 | Departure for conference dinner: Villa Arrigo |
Saturday, August 24, 2002
| 09.00-13.00 | Parallel sessions |
| SESSION 9 | Ethics, technology and decision-making Chair: Henk ten Have |
| 09.00-09.30 | Bartels, S. et al. (Switzerland): Critical decision making: practicability and benefit of ethical guidelines in clinical practice |
| 09.30-10.00 | Margaret P. Battin, (U.S.A.): Dilemmas of suicide and self-sacrifice: "Suicide Bombing" and the right to die |
| 10.00-10.30 |
Katharina Lindner & Stella Reiter-Theil (Switzerland): Ethics in neonatal intensive care. Critical decision making about limitation and termination of treatment |
| 10.30-11.00 | Ohnsorge, K. (Switzerland): German adaptation of the American decisions program |
| 11.00 -11.30 | Coffee break |
| SESSION 10.1 | European approaches in philosophy of health care and bioethics Chair: Emmanuel Agius |
| 09.00-09.30 | Tuija Takala (Finland): Is ethics the business of ethics committees? |
| 09.30-10.00 | Martien Pijnenburg (Netherlands): Identity and values |
| 10.00-10.30 | David Badcott (United Kingdom): The contribution of some historic European ideas to the concept of therapeutic individuality |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Jiri Simek & Vladimir Spalek (Czech Republic): Conflict of natural world of a patient and scientific world of a physician in contemporary health care. Reflections on the philosophy of Jan Patocka. |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break |
| SESSION 10.2 | Health care delivery Chair: Gerrit Kimsma |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Helga Helland Finstad (Norway): Participation or intrusion. Different approaches to a successful rehabilitation in local psychiatric services |
| 12.00-12.30 | Stefán Hjörleifsson (Norway): When more is worse - medical expansion as a threat to health |
| 12.30-13.00 | Renzo Pegoraro (Italy): Ethic questions and public health federalism |
| SESSION 11.1 | Empirical bioethics Chair: Nicola Biller |
| 09.00-09.30 | Soren Holm (United Kingdom): What empirical bioethics can learn from empirical business ethics and vice versa |
| 09.30-10.00 |
Wim Dekkers & Cor Hoffer (Netherlands): Bodily integrity and the case of male and female circumcision. A contribution to empirical ethics |
| 10.00-10.30 | Angus Dawson (United Kingdom): Towards an account of 'fair use' of empirical evidence in ethical arguments |
| 10.30-11.00 |
A.C. Molewijk (The Netherlands): Patient autonomy between moral theory and empirical data: Methodological considerations regarding empirical ethics research |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break |
| SESSION 11.2 | Alternative approaches to medicine Chair: Pierre Mallia |
| 11.30-12.00 | Stephen Tyreman (United Kingdom): Science and the folk traditions in health care |
| 12.00-12.30 | Ingemar Nordin (Sweden): Quackery |
| 12.30-13.00 | Konstantin Khroutski (Russia): 'Forwards to Hippocrates': approaching the cosmist bioethics of individuals's health |
| SESSION 12.1 | Health care education Chair: Richard Ashcroft |
| 09.00-09.30 | Pekka Louhiala (Finland): Should philosophy be taught for medical students? |
| 09.00-09.30 | M. Strätling et al. (Germany): Providing a complementary systematology for teaching emergency medicine |
| 09.00-09.30 | V. Scharf et al. (Germany): Practical experiences with teaching ethical implications in emergency medicine |
| 10.30-11.00 | Per-Anders Tengland (Sweden): Empathy: Its meaning and its use in a theory of psychotherapy |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break |
| SESSION 12.2 | Philosophical anthropology and clinical practice Chair: Zbigniew Szawarski |
| 11.30-12.00 | Christian Perring (United States): Ethical theory and clinical practice: the role of freewill |
| 12.00-12.30 | Stephan Sahm (Germany): Bioethics, biopolitics and the image of man: current issues and the perspective of anthropology |
| 12.30-13.00 | Pekka Vuoria & Raimo Puustinen (Finland): A second rationalism. A possibility for the re-humanization of public medical care |
| 13.00-14.00 | Plenary closing session Minister of Health President of ESPMH |