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 26^th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

 21 – 24 August, 2012 (new dates)

Introduction to the conference!

 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Abstracts addressing the following topics will be favoured, although work on other topics can also be submitted:  

Ethical issues in providing healthcare during war, pandemics and disasters

• Health and human rights
• The mission of WHO in the prevention and control of pandemics
• Ethical dilemmas in triage
• The role of physicians in war

 Risk assessment in public health

•  Responsibilities of risk assessment agencies
•  Ethics and the pharmaceutical industry
• Risk assessment for exposure to chemicals and nanomaterials
• The precautionary principle

 Dealing with fatal conditions

• Truth-telling and cancer patients
• Palliative care and pain relief
• Strengths and shortcomings of advance directives
• Decisions about life sustainment treatments

 Bioethics and international justice

• Setting priorities at an international scale
• Addressing the 10/90 gap
• Prevention of trafficking of human organs
• Benefit sharing in human research.

 Bioethics and intergenerational justice

• The debate on liberal eugenics
• Is there a duty to preserve the human species?
• Problems associated with reproductive technologies
• Human cloning and germ-line interventions
• Synthetic biology

The programme of the conference includes plenary sessions as well as parallel sessions. Anyone wishing to present a paper at the conference should submit an abstract (500 words maximum) before March 1, 2012. The Conference Programme Committee will select abstracts for oral presentation. Please send abstracts by e-mail to: Professor Bert Gordijn, Secretary of the ESPMH; Institute of Ethics, Henry Grattan Building, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland; E-mail: bert.gordijn@dcu.ie