ESPMH

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

21 – 24 August, 2012

"Worst Case Bioethics"

This conference will be organised by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH) and the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Nazareth, Israel.

Introduction to the conference (power point)

Registration form Conference brochure Form accomodation - Social event

Draft programme (updated 17 May)

Among others the conference is addressing the following topics:

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. The deadline for abstracts (500 words maximum) was March 1, 2012. Questions with regard to the conference should be send 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