Call for Abstracts: EACME Annual Meeting: “Multiculturalism, Religions, and Bioethics”

January 19, 2009

Call for Abstracts – EACME Annual Meeting: “Multiculturalism, Religions, and Bioethics”, Venice, Italy (10-11 Sept 2009)
 
In 2009 Fondazione Lanza, Padova, “Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice, and the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) will organise the EACME annual conference. Fondazione Lanza will be the co-ordinator and the University ofVenice will be the host of the event. The event is organized on the occasion of the 20^th anniversary of Fondazione Lanza.
 
There are four central topics:
–          Multiculturalism, Religions and Bioethics in a Post-Modern Society;
–          Universal Values and General Ethical Standards in a Multicultural Context;
–          Towards a Mediterranean Bioethics;
–          Healthcare in the Context of Migration: Social Aspects of Care and Vulnerability.
 
Abstracts addressing the ethical dimensions of the following topics can be submitted:

Multiculturalism, Religions and  Bioethics in a Post-Modern Society:
–          Religion and bioethics in the public arena
–          Identity of EACME: tradition and future
–          Western and ‘alternative’ medicine in a multicultural world 

Universal Values and General Ethical Standards in a Multicultural Context:
–          Human rights, contextualization and bioethics
–          Universal ethical standards for research
–          Ethics codes and moral virtues

Towards a Mediterranean Bioethics:
–          Bioethics in the context of inter-religious dialogue among Islamic, Jewish, and Christian religions
–          Women, children and healthcare
–          Western bioethics and developing world bioethics. What dialogue between North and South?

Healthcare in the Context of Migration. Social Aspects of Care and Vulnerability:
–          Global concept of care
–          Social-ethical approaches to vulnerable groups
–          Informed consent in the context of migration

The program of the conference includes plenary sessions as well as parallel sessions. Persons wishing to present papers at the conference are invited to submit an abstract addressing the ethical dimensions of the conference topics (500 words maximum) before March 1, 2009. Papers will be selected from the abstracts by the Conference Program Committee.

Please send abstracts to:
Fondazione Lanza
Prof. Renzo Pegoraro and Prof. Fabrizio Turoldo
Via Dante 55
35139 PADOVA  ITALY
Tel. +39-49-875 60 08                                         E-mail: [email protected]
Fax +39-49-875 67 88                                        Conference website: www.webethics.net/eacme2009