Bioethics meetings & conferences

34th Anthropology and Health Conference

Anthropology and Personalised Medicine: Impacting the Future of Comprehensive Healthcare

8th-12th September 2013, Inter University Centre, Don Frana Bulića 4, 20 000 Dubrovnik, Croatia

Objectives:

1. To delineate anthropological perspectives on biological constructs of diversity such as “race” and their historical and current impact on the development and practice of personalized medicine.

2. To delineate anthropological sociocultural constructs of diversity such as racism and ethnocentrism, bioethics, health equity and disparities and their historical and current impact on the development and practice of personalized medicine.

3. To examine anthropological contributions to the molecular genetic, population genetic and epigenetic foundations of personalized medicine using Croatian populations as an exemplar.

4. Through the dual lenses of medicine and anthropology discuss new developments and projected epidemiological impact of personalized medicine on metabolic syndrome, diabetes, cancers, forensic sciences, and other diseases and conditions.

5.To develop a comprehensive approach to the dissemination, tracking and assessment of the impact of the conference using the Becker Model.

International Summer Course in Bioethics

July 2nd -July 12th, Rome, Italy

The 2013 Summer Course in Bioethics is organized by the School of Bioethics in collaboration with the Institute of Science and Faith and the Superior Institute of Religious Sciences and will be held from July 2nd -July 12th.

The topic of the course will be: “Bioethics at the crossroads of Faith, Reason and Science".

Simultaneous translation: English-Italian-Spanish.

The topic of the course will be: "Bioethics at the crossroads of Faith, Reason and Science".

Bioethics often studies subjects related to advances in biological and medical sciences, but they cannot be reduced to scientific rationality.

Ethical dilemmas concerning life and death, healing and suffering, the relationship between people, and so on, cannot be separated from an integral vision of reality. This vision can be opened or closed to transcendence, i.e., with reason enlightened by faith alone or with faith. The aim of the course is to analyze these deep relationships, to be a platform of dialogue between different views, even opposing ones, to arrive at the greatest good for all.

It is possible to attend both tracks - or just one.

The first track will deal with fundamental issues: the relationship between faith and reason, the relationship between science and philosophical reason, scientism, science and technology in the face of human life, secular and Catholic bioethics, theological study of bioethics; natural law and bioethics, different religious visions, and the pastoral application of bioethics.

The second track will address some of the specific problems of bioethics considered under different points of view: from the beginning of life to the end of life, from procreation to the respect for the environment, genetic manipulation and eugenics, etc.

The lectures will be offered by professors of the School of Bioethics, with participation of experts and professors from different countries.

In addition to the conferences, meetings and activities for reflection and discussion will be organized to encourage active participation of all the students.

National Society of Genetic Counselors 2013 Annual Education Conference

NSGC 2013 Annual Education Conference October 9-12, 2013 Anaheim, California

12th Congress of the International Society of Organ Donation and Procurement

November 21-24, 2013 Sydney, Australia

Contact Us

Congress Secretariat
2013 Organ Donation Congress
c/o The Transplantation Society
Professional Conference Services
1255 University Street, Suite 605
Montreal, QC, H3B 3V9
Canada

Phone: 1-514-874-1717
Fax: 1-514-874-1716
Email: info@isodp2013.org

4th International Conference of Comics and Medicine

2013 Brighton Conference

Ethics Under Cover: Comics, Medicine and Society

5th-7th July 2013 Brighton and Sussex Medical School, United Kingdom

Brighton and Sussex Medical School in collaboration with Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust and Graphic Medicine invites papers for the fourth international conference on Comics and Medicine. Previous meetings have been held in London, Chicago and Toronto (more information at www.graphicmedicine.org).

This interdisciplinary conference intends to appeal to a wide audience, including healthcare professionals, comics creators, students, academic scholars, comics enthusiasts, and various stakeholder groups. The meeting will consist of a mix of peer reviewed academic papers, lectures and workshops. There will also be an exhibition and stalls for participants’ work.

Frontiers of Informed Consent 3rd Annual Workshop in Applied Ethics

Northeastern University, Boston, MA, September 27-29, 2013

Informed, autonomous consent is widely considered to be central to the ethics of human subjects research. However, it remains both conceptually and practically underspecified. A conceptually clear account of informed consent that is appropriate to the broad array of human subjects research, from medical to social science, has been elusive. Moreover, it has proven to be difficult to operationalize informed consent in practice. These challenges to the ethics of informed consent have been compounded by the globalization of research and rapid technological developments.

This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together practitioners and theorists at the leading edge of the ethics of informed consent to share their research and discuss the future of informed consent. The workshop is designed to be highly interactive, and to provide speakers with constructive feedback from colleagues working on related issues.
 

2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

October 24-27, 2013 Atlanta, Georgia

The 2013 Annual Meeting, "Tradition, Innovation and Moral Courage," will take place October 24-27, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Theme: Tradition, Innovation and Moral Courrage

The theme for the 2013 ASBH meeting, “Tradition, Innovation and Moral Courage,” encourages participants to respond to the ways bioethics is inspired and shaped by various moral traditions, beliefs, and methodological approaches, as well as how these very traditions and practices become the foci of contemporary bioethical work bearing on moral progress and moral “innovation.”  This year’s ASBH theme invites members to reflect on the dialectic among moral traditions, moral inquiry, and moral innovation, and the ways that cultures identifying themselves as morally progressive might conceptualize the meaning and role of moral courage in realizing that progress.  With bioethical work being received with ever increasing public scrutiny and impact, the 2013 ASBH conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, whose cultural roots and evolution reflect the ways tradition and innovation propelled and shaped a history in which moral courage played and continues to play a quintessential role.

European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics Annual Conference

September 19-21, 2013 Bochum, Germany

“Personalised medicine” – medicine for the person? Ethical challenges for medical research and practice

The Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) will organise the EACME annual conference in 2013. The conference will be organised in cooperation with the Centre for Medical Ethics Bochum (ZME e.V.) and supported by the Research Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum. 

Contact details and further information:
President of the Conference: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Jochen Vollmann
Scientific Secretary: PD Dr. med. Jan Schildmann, M.A.  

Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Ruhr University Bochum
Markstrasse 258a
44799 Bochum
Germany 

Tel.: 0049 234-32-23394      
Fax: 0049 234-32-14205      
E-mail: info(at)eacme2013.org
Conference website: www.eacme2013.org

2nd Annual Conference on Medicine and Religion

May 28, 2013 - May 30, 2013 Chicago, Illinois

What Does It Mean to Care? Religious Traditions and Health Professions Today 

At the heart of medicine is care. Medical care, surgical care, nursing care, wound care, palliative care, even spiritual care—almost everything health professionals do is advanced as a form of care. Yet patients, health professionals, and critics of medicine often question how much care there is in health care. Moreover, it is often unclear how health care fits into a faithful life, as understood in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

The second annual National Conference on Medicine and Religion will provide a forum for scholars and health care professionals to ask what it means to care and how the traditions and practices of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam inform possible answers to the question.

What is the care that faith requires, with respect to one’s patients, one’s colleagues, and oneself? How are professionalized forms of care related to and potentially in tension with the care provided in other contexts? How do both types of care relate to the care taught by different religious traditions? What sort of care does contemporary medicine propose to provide and actually provide? What can we learn from paradigmatic expressions of care found within religious texts and historical or contemporary religious communities? How do illness experiences and health care practices inform and shape religious norms and practices? How do religious traditions and practices challenge or propose an alternative to conventional health care norms and practices?

For questions concerning the conference, please contact the Program on Medicine and Religion at medrelig@uchicago.edu or 773-702-0903.

14th EMBO | EMBL Science and Society Conference Public and Private Health – Genomics, Medicine and Society

European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Thursday 7 November - Friday 8 November 2013

Aims of event
The main aim of these joint meetings is to present important areas of life science research in a manner accessible to all, and to promote reflection on their implications. At the same time, they should facilitate a broad dialogue between biologists, behavioral and social scientists, students of all disciplines, and members of the public. 

Who Should Attend

Everyone is welcome to attend.