The European Society For Philosophy Of Medicine And Healthcare

24th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

Human Nature, Medicine & Health Care

18 – 21 August, 2010
Zagreb, Croatia

This conference will be organised by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH) and the Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Abstracts addressing the following topics will be favoured, although work on other topics can also be submitted:

Systematic perspectives on human nature:
• The species concept
• Transhumanism and posthumanism
• Hybrids, cyborgs and androids
• Natural vs. artificial
• Human dignity

Historical perspectives: human nature in philosophical traditions, including:
• Existentialism
• Phenomenology
• Hermeneutics
• Deconstructionism
• Pragmatism
• Utilitarianism

Significance of the concept of human nature for medicine & health care:
• Medical issues and the person
• Humane medicine
• Conceiving the embryo
• Consciousness, coma, and the vegetative state
• Personhood, dementia and the integrity of human life

The programme of the conference includes plenary sessions as well as parallel sessions. Persons wishing to present a paper at the conference are invited to submit an abstract (500 words maximum) before March 1, 2010. The Conference Programme Committee will select abstracts for oral presentation. Please send abstracts (through E-mail) to:

Professor Bert Gordijn,
Secretary of the ESPMH
Institute of Ethics
Henry Grattan Building
Dublin City University
Dublin 9, Ireland
E-mail: bert.gordijn@dcu.ie