The European Society For Philosophy Of Medicine And Healthcare

20 - 23 August, 2008
Tartu, Estonia

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

This conference will be organised by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH) and the Centre for Ethics, University of Tartu. Abstracts addressing the following topics can be submitted:

European, American, African and Asian or global bioethics?
- Philosophical foundations of bioethics
- Religious sources of bioethics
- Principles of bioethics
- Individual and collective values

Regulating medicine and healthcare: global or regional aspirations?
- Ethics, law and governance
- Public debates and policy outcomes
- Institutional Research Boards and Health Care Ethics Committees
- Funding of ethics research

Changes and challenges in medicine and bioethics
- Re-thinking traditions and concepts
- Solidarity and global justice
- Multiculturalism and health care
- E-health and new medical technologies

The program of the conference includes plenary sessions as well as parallel sessions. Persons wishing to present papers at the conference are invited to submit an abstract (500 words maximum) before March 1, 2008. The Conference Program Committee will select abstracts for oral presentation. Please send abstracts (through E-mail or on diskette in Word) to:

Dr. Bert Gordijn, Secretary of the ESPMH
Dept. of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine 137
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
E-mail addresses: b.gordijn@efg.umcn.nl or d.verhaar@efg.umcn.nl