Call for Abstracts: Is Medical Ethics Really in the Best Interest of the Patient?

October 28, 2009

Open Call For Abstracts: Is Medical Ethics Really in the Best Interest of the Patient?
Uppsala, Sweden, 14-16 June 2010
Abstract submission deadline: February 15

This conference is divided into three themes, one for each day of the conference. Each theme has three keynote presentations that will be followed by oral presentations in parallel sessions.

Monday June 14:
Should ideology be allowed to trump patient well-being?

Tuesday June 15:
What is the role of informed consent in medical research?

Wednesday June 16:
Ethical review boards: are they important ethical safeguards or over-burdensome and unnecessary bureaucracy?

We wanted to be a little provocative but, as the examples of questions indicate, we expect input both regarding “medical ethics as unduly bureaucratic” and “researchers as lazy when they complain about this alleged bureaucracy”.

We think that both ideology and prudence may in practice play a role both in clinical decision-making and in medical research ethics, but think that medical ethics, and the patients, would benefit from a clearer understanding of their relationship and their proper roles.

We welcome presentations on medical research ethics as well as clinical ethics and encourage both empirical and theoretical contributions including discussions about different philosophical approaches to these issues.

The abstracts will be peer reviewed and a notification of acceptance is due in March 2010. On this basis we invite scholars of all disciplines and medical practitioners to submit abstracts. Submission deadline February 15, 2010.

Call for abstracts

Conference website: medical-ethics2010.crb.uu.se