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Call for Papers: Relational Selves and Families in Medicine: Gender Perspectives
Sweden
09/01/2012

Call for Papers: Relational Selves and Families in Medicine: Gender Perspectives

Conference Dec 10-12, 2012, Linköping, Sweden

In many cases, there is only one patient in the patient-health care professional encounter. This, however, is not always the case. As some examples, two individuals may seek medical assistance in order to conceive a child together and more individuals may be involved if a sibling donates egg or sperm to a family-member and her/his partner.

Many other examples can be given of encounters and treatments that involve more than one patient and one health care professional. When the patient is a minor child, parent(s) may face difficult treatment decisions as regards medical treatment for their children. If two parents are involved in the decision, they may not always agree on what is the best treatment for their child. And what say does the child have in terms of treatments? As yet another example, cases of sibling organ donation where a sibling donates an organ to a brother or sister highlight how intimately family members can become involved in each other’s medical treatment. Finally, the topic of families in medicine can be pertinent in relation to aging and health care needs in later life, where relatives can become thoroughly involved in this care and where gender roles can feed into this care work.

Still, comparably little attention has been given to the role of families in medical encounters, treatment decisions, care work and illness experiences.

The aim of the conference

Relational selves and families in medicine: Gender Perspectives is to bring together scholars who examine the role of extended families, parents, siblings, children, and close friends in medicine, and this with a gender perspective. We welcome contributions from scholars with interdisciplinary and various disciplinary backgrounds within the social sciences and the humanities. We specially invite contributions that focus on (but are not limited to):

Assisted reproductive technologies, surrogacy, egg-, sperm- and embryo donation, adoption and other ways of becoming parents

The welfare of the child in medicine

Conceptions and norms of parenthood in medicine

Corrective measures: what is ‘corrected’ and why, in children’s and teen-agers’ bodies?

Ageing and care in later life

- Relational conceptions of selves and relational autonomy

- The interplay between self and others, and how this can inform the illness experience as well as experiences of hope, strength and health.

Abstract submission

Please submit abstracts (400 words) incl. name and affiliation, no later than September 1, 2012, to abstracts.genderandhealth@gmail.com. The Conference Committee will select abstracts for oral presentation and notify whether or not you have been accepted.

Registration

Deadline for registration is October 15, 2012. Conference fee (100 Euro) covers one conference abstract booklet, coffee in pauses and one conference dinner. Register by sending an e-mail to conference.genderandhealth@gmail.com in which you state name, affiliation, allergies/food preferences. The conference fee is to be submitted using one of the alternatives below.

Participants with a Swedish bank account: Please use the account Bankgiro 743-8609 (Danske Bank). The reference nr: 8831030001, your name and affiliation must be included in the payment.

Participants with an international bank account: Please use the account: 8901-1 924 339 671-1. Address: Swedbank, S-105 34 Stockholm, Sweden, BIC: SWEDSESS, IBAN: SE34 8000 0890 1192 4339 6711. Please note that the reference nr: 8831030001, your name and affiliation must be included in the payment.

Any questions and enquiries can be sent to conference: genderandhealth@gmail.com

Family Caregiver, Family Physician, Health Services Researcher, Nurse Researcher, Pediatric Nurse, Pediatrician, Physician Researcher, Social Scientist, Social Worker
Call for Scientific Research Posters and Innovative Program Abstracts: Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) 2012 Annual Conference
United States
California
06/01/2012

Call for Scientific Research Posters and Innovative Program Abstracts: Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) 2012 Annual Conference

CHADD's 25th Anniversary Annual International Conference on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

November 8-10, 2012 San Fransisco, California

The CHADD Annual International Conference is the major research, practice and public information conference dedicated to issues related to ADHD. Conference sessions will focus on providing current science-based information and the impact of this information on treatment plans for individuals with ADHD. The conference will bring together researchers, clinicians, educators, adults with ADHD, parents and others. Major goals for the conference are to disseminate the latest developments in research; to facilitate an ongoing exchange about issues related to ADHD by individuals with different experiences and viewpoints; and to increase public understanding of the disorder and its impact.

Only online submissions will be considered for Research poster abstracts and Innovative program abstracts must be received by June 1, 2012. Only online submissions will be considered.

Scientific Research Posters

Research in the area of ADHD related to specific topics of etiology, epidemiology, social, familial, medical and educational matters will be presented in a research poster session. Abstracts will be selected by a panel of reviewers based on scientific merits as well as on a space limitations and the need for a balance of topics. Decisions are based on scientific merit as well as on space limitations and the need for a balance of topics.

Submission Requirements:

• Abstracts that describe actual empirical research are preferred.
• Abstracts submitted should be no longer than 500 words and contain a description of the study's purposes, methodology and results, keeping in mind the diversity of backgrounds of the conference attendees.
• The names and affiliations of all investigators.

Research poster abstracts must be received by June 1, 2012. Only online submissions were considered.

CHADD will not be able to underwrite the expenses of presenters accepted from this Call for Papers.

Questions? Please phone 301-306-7070.

Innovative Programs

As parents and adults, educators and health care providers become more aware of the needs of children with ADHD and their families, they are finding extremely creative ways of addressing these needs. Such efforts include developing new and innovative programs, modifying existing programs; accommodating the needs of the child through individually designed learning environments that highlight his or her special needs, and developing community-wide collaborative models.

Individuals representing a wide array of innovative program and services will be on hand to share information with conference attendees.

Innovative program abstracts must be received by June 1, 2012. Only online submissions were considered.

CHADD will not be able to underwrite the expenses of presenters accepted from this Call for Papers.

Questions? Please phone 301-306-7070.

Behavioral Scientist, Child Psychologist, Neurologist, Neuroscientist, Physician Researcher, Psychologist, Social Worker