Ethics calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Papers: Ethics and Aesthetics of Epidemiological Photography

Saturday, 14 September 2013 Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Convener

Dr Christos Lynteris (Mellon/Newton Research Fellow, CRASSH)

Despite recent developments in the historical and anthropological study of medical photography, the photographic depiction of epidemics remains a largely unexplored area in the humanities and the social sciences.

This one day conference seeks to bring photographers with experience in covering infectious disease outbreaks together with medical historians, anthropologists and public health experts in order to engage in a dialogue regarding the past, present and future of epidemiological photography.

The conference will examine the following topics:

■ The birth of epidemiological photography at the turn of the 20th century and the changes it brought about in the depiction and public perception of epidemics.

■ The historical development of the genre over the last century and its interaction with other photographic genres (e.g. war photography).

■ Photo-journalism, epidemic crisis and the formation of public opinion.

■ Representing disease and death in postcolonial contexts.

■ New photographic technologies (such as mobile phone cameras), new social media, and grassroots photographic representation of outbreaks.

Papers are invited on the photographic coverage and representation of infectious disease epidemics, as well as on comparative studies between medical photography and the photography of epidemics, and between photographic and non-photographic modes of representation.

Papers written from historical, anthropological, visual studies and public health perspectives, dealing with current or past epidemics are welcomed.

Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and should be sent to the conference convener, Dr Christos Lynteris cl537@cam.ac.uk, by 17:00 GMT on July 26 2013.

Sponsors

Supported by a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH)

Administrative assistance: conferences@crassh.cam.ac.uk

Call for Proposals: Feminist Approaches to Bioethics

The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics is pleased to invite proposals for panels and papers for presentation at the 2014 World Congress in Mexico City, 22-24 June 2014. The Congress theme is Health Care Ethics: Local, Global, Universal. While FAB encourages submissions on this theme, submissions on any topic in feminist bioethics are welcome.

Paper abstracts should be 300 words long, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by both a descriptive title for the paper proposed and 2-3 keywords. Proposed panels should also be prepared for anonymous review and consist of a 300-word description of the overall topic and objectives of the panel, as well as a panel title and the titles of all the papers to be included in the panel. All submissions should include the names, email addresses, and full affiliations of all authors. In cases of panels and coauthored papers, please identify a corresponding author. One or two submitted papers may be selected for plenary presentations. If you wish your paper to be considered for a plenary, please submit the full paper and indicate that you seek review for a plenary. The conference organizers welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, the social sciences, critical cultural studies (gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, race studies, etc.), law, public health, and others. We particularly encourage submissions from early career researchers.

Submissions (in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format) should be emailed to <fab.mexico.2014@gmail.com> by 1 September 2013. This email address should only be used for communications concerning submissions, and not for general conference or FAB inquiries.

Sample topics:

·  Feminist thoughts about universal declarations of rights

·  Feminist thoughts about what moral obligations, if any, are universal

·  How growing economies shape the delivery of health care for women

·  How oppression affects access to health care

·  Informal systems of care

·  International comparisons of health care systems

·  Macro dilemmas and micro solutions to the need for health care

·  Political foundations for access to care

·  Scarce resources, just allocations

·  Local power, global biomedical challenges

·  Neoliberalism’s impact on health care systems

·  Medical research in a global era

·  Feminist bioethics: ghetto or global?

·  A local epistemology for a global feminist bioethics

Papers accepted for the conference will be reviewed for publication in IJFAB. Conferees should plan to submit their final papers to IJFAB no later than 1September 2014.

Application Procedure for Travel and Registration Grants

For more information about International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, (FAB), visit www.fabnet.org.

FAB is affiliated with the International Association of Bioethics (IAB).

The IAB World Congress will be held in Mexico City 24-27 June 2014.

Call for Abstracts: 43rd Critical Care Congress

January 9-13, 2014 San Francisco, California

The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 43rd Critical Care Congress will be a powerhouse of creative and inspirational ideas for the critical care field.

We invite you to join nearly 5,000 critical care clinicians in San Francisco, where innovation will meet at the intersection of technology and medicine. Novel discoveries will be showcased, culminating a year’s worth of achievements in research and education.

The 2014 Congress will provide outstanding networking opportunities and innovative learning experiences, highlighting the most up-to-date, evidence-based developments in critical care medicine.

Make your contribution to the advancement of critical care by submitting your original investigative research and case reports for the 43rd Critical Care Congress. If accepted, your work will be on display throughout Congress, which will be held January 9 to 13, 2014. Abstracts also will be published in Critical Care Medicine, the #1 critical care subspecialty journal. Individuals whose abstracts are accepted are also eligible for peer evaluation and awards. Presenting authors who are SCCM members at the time of abstract submission may have an opportunity to apply for complimentary Congress registration.

Abstract Submission

To submit an abstract for the 43rd Critical Care Congress, log in to MySCCM.org with your SCCM customer ID and password, or sign up for an account. Once logged in, click the “Submit Abstracts” button to the left.

Abstracts will be accepted from May 1, 2013, to 12:00 p.m. Central Time on September 3, 2013. No extensions or late-breaking abstracts will be permitted. Please note that the SCCM office will be closed for the Labor Day holiday on September 2, 2013; no technical assistance will be available on that date. It is recommended that you complete the submission process prior to September 3, 2013.

Submission Requirements

Abstracts and/or information previously presented or published within the United States or internationally are not allowed.

Abstracts may contain new research on a topic presented previously.

Submission of an abstract constitutes a commitment by the author(s) to present the abstract as accepted.

Expenses associated with the preparation, submission and presentation of an abstract are the responsibility of the presenter(s)/author(s).

Authors of accepted abstracts are expected to register for the meeting and pay the meeting registration fee, unless they qualify and apply for complimentary registration.

Abstract Categories

Administration

Basic Science

- Cell Biology (NO and Signal Transduction, Signal Transduction)

- Cardiovascular

- Endocrine

- GI/Nutrition

- Hematology

- Hepatic

- Immunology

- Infection

- Neurology

- Pulmonary

- Renal

- Sepsis

Case Reports (including but not limited to disaster-related cases)

Clinical Medicine

- Cardiovascular (Diagnostics, Monitoring, Therapeutic)

- Endocrine

- GI/Nutrition

- Hematology

- Immunology

- Infection

- Neurology (Diagnostics, Monitoring, Therapeutics)

- Pulmonary (Diagnostics, Mechanical Ventilation, Therapeutics)

- Renal

- Burns/Trauma (Therapeutics: Pharmacologic/Procedural)

- Sepsis (Diagnostics, Therapeutics, Antimicrobials, Guidelines and Bundles,

Nosocomial (VAP, BSI, UTI), Cardiovascular, Endocrine)

CPR/Resuscitation

Education

Epidemiology/Outcomes (Predictors, Quality of Life, Safety)

Ethics and End of Life

Patient and Family Support

Therapeutics (Drugs and Pharmacokinetics, Sedation, Other)

Call for Oral/Poster Abstracts: 16th World Congress of Psychiatry

September 14-18, 2014 Madrid, Spain

The 16th World Congress of Psychiatry will be held in Madrid and have a thought-provoking programme exploring the latest perspectives, trends and clinical research in global psychiatric care and practice.

Deadline for submission: February 1st, 2014

Abstracts’ submission: Only through the conference submission web page.

Abstracts submitted via fax or e-mail will not be accepted.

Contact Us

Tilesa OPC
C/ Londres 17, 28028, Madrid
+34 91 361 2600
secretariat@wpamadrid2014.com

Call for Papers: Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Submission deadline (full paper): June 26, 2013

Recent advances in technology and computational science influenced a large spectrum of branches in approaching population health. Despite significant progresses, many challenges exist, including health informatics, cross-country platforms interoperability, system and laws harmonization, protection of health data, practical solutions, accessibility to health services, and many others. Along with technological progress, personalized medicine, ambient assistance and pervasive health complement patient needs. A combination of classical and information-driven approach is developing now, where diagnosis systems, data protection mechanisms, remote assistance and hospital-processes are converging.

GLOBAL HEALTH 2013 takes a global perspective on population health, from national to cross-country approaches, multiplatform technologies, from drug design to medicine accessibility, everything under mobile, ubiquitous, and personalized characteristics of new age population.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

FUNDAMENTALS

Foundations in global health informatics

Computational health

Software for health

Independent living technologies

ICT and health

Platform interoperability

Semantic interoperability

Diagnosis systems

Applied health informatics

User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY

Bio-medical semantics

Bio-medicine

Disease biomarker prediction

Applications of bio-nano technology

Body networks

Mobile healthcare

Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS

Clinical epigenetic

Long term health conditions

Ambient assisted

Genetics

Virtual reality in medicine surgery

Clinical trials

Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics

Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE

Nursing

Patient-centered care

Personalized medicine

Pervasive health

Homecare

Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE

Biomedicine

Natural medicine

Preventive medicine

Chronic diseases following

Home surveillance

CHALLENGES

Security aspects and access control on medical data

Data management in pervasive context

Data quality assurance and provenance

Patient flow models in hospitals

Clinical data analysis

Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL

eHealth initiatives

Social medicine

Health global accessibility

Epidemic spreading and control

Health Education

Providing health in remote areas

Decision support within healthcare

Ethical aspects in eHealth

Healthcare plans and patient benefits

Synchronization of federal regulations

Availability of medication

Community health services

Call for Papers: 13th International Child Neurology Congress

May 4-9 2014 Iguazu Falls, Brazil

Submissions Close Oct 1, 2013

Abstracts must be submitted online

The 13th International Child Neurology Congress will be held in the city of Foz do Iguaçu (Iguazú River Mouth), Brazil, from  4 to 9 May 2014. This is the second time that an ICNC is held in Latin America the first one being in Buenos Aires, Argentina,  in 1992. The congress will be held jointly with the 9th Brazilian Congress of Child Neurology

Topics

Cerebral Palsy

Neurodevelopmental disabilities

CNS infection

Development, cognition and neuropsychiatry

Education and training

Epilepsy

Metabolic Disorders

Movement Disorders

Muscle and Nerve

Neonatal and fetal neurology

Neurotrauma, critical care and neuroprotection

Neurocutaneous and Neurogenetics

Neuroradiology

Neuroimmunology

Stroke and Neurovascular disorders

Headache

Neurosurgery

Neurooncology

Neuroophthalmology

Neuroendocrinology

Neurorehabilitation

Neuroethics and History

Call for Abstracts: 3rd World Congress of the International Society for Fertility Preservation (ISFP)

November 7-9, 2013 Valencia, Spain 

Abstract submission deadline: August 7, 2013

We invite you to take part in the 3rd World Congress on the International Society for Fertility Preservation (ISFP) which will take place in Valencia, Spain on November 7-9, 2013.

Fertility preservation is a substantial quality of life issue for young cancer survivors. As a consequence, the demand for fertility preservation has dramatically increased. The aim of the Congress is to update current scientific and clinical development of fertility preservation strategies. The Congress will not only propagate the current knowledge but also provide an opportunity for networking.

This congress is designed for reproductive endocrinologists, hematology-oncologists, gynecologic oncologists, psychologists, basic scientists, clinical researchers, oncology nurses, REI nurses, oncology social workers and others interested in fertility preservation.

During this congress, participants will be able to:

- Educate medical professionals to facilitate FP referrals
- Define the ethical and legal issues related to FP
- Explain the impact of cancer treatment on fertility and reproduction.
- Evaluate the current status of gamete Cryopreservation.
- Assess the strategies and values of emerging technology in ovarian transplantation.
- Recognize basic physiology and effects of Cryopreservation.
- Analyze physiology and current techniques of folliculogenesis and IVM.
- Identify new fertility preservation technologies