The European Society For Philosophy Of Medicine And Healthcare

XVIIIth EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE
25 - 28 August, 2004
Reykjavik, Iceland
"GENETICS AND HEALTH CARE"
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Conference organised by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH), the ELSAGEN bioethics project, and the Centre for Ethics at the University of Iceland, in Reykjavík, Iceland, August 25-28, 2004.

The focus of the conference is on philosophical, ethical and legal issues in relation to biomolecular technologies, and genetics in particular. Abstracts are invited, addressing the following topics:

population based genetic databases
ethical aspects of genetic databases
social aspects of genetic databases
legal aspects of genetic databases
genetic screening and testing
genetic councelling
geneticization of medicine
genetics and prevention
genetic engineering
patenting and genetics
commercialization of medicine
stem cell research and cloning
governance of databases
European guidelines

The program of the conference includes plenary sessions as well as parallel session. 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 November 1, 2003. Kindly send abstracts - as well on diskette in Word or through email - to:

Conference organisation:

Prof.dr.Henk ten Have, ESPMH Secreteriat
Dept. of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine
University Medical Centre Nijmegen
PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Emails: d.verhaar@efg.umcn.nl; h.tenhave@efg.umcn.nl