The European Society For Philosophy Of Medicine And Healthcare

XXIIIrd EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

Sources and Perspectives of Bioethics

19 - 22 August, 2009
Tübingen, Germany

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

This conference will be organised by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH), the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine and the Interdepartmental Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), University of Tübingen. Abstracts addressing the following topics can be submitted:

Past of bioethics:
- Bioethics avant la lettre: How medical ethics preceded bioethics
- Bioethics and the renaissance of normative ethics
- Social Developments in the 20th century and bioethics: Liberalism, civil rights movement, ecology movements
- The development of institutions in bioethics
- Ideologies and bioethics

Status quo of bioethics:
- Current methodological and theoretical approaches in bioethics
- Bioethical institutions
- Technological innovation and paradigmatic problems of bioethics
- Bioethics, public policy, and law
- Contemporary challenges within bioethics: interdisciplinarity, pluralism, interculturalism
- Transformations of modern medicine and bioethics

Future of bioethics:
- The future of bioethics as academic discipline
- Recent and future „turns“ in bioethics (empirical turn, cultural turn)
- Bioethics and globalisation
- Utopia and bioethics
- Emerging issues and their theoretical impact on bioethics

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, 2009. The Conference Programme Committee will select abstracts for oral presentation. Please send abstracts (through E-mail) to:

Dr. Bert Gordijn, Secretary of the ESPMH
Ethics Institute
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Dublin City University
Dublin 9, Ireland
E-mail: bert.gordijn@dcu.ie