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The UNESCO Chair in Bioethics is pleased to invite you to become an active participant at the 12th World Conference. The Conference is designed to offer a platform for the exchange of information and knowledge and to hold discussions, lectures, workshops and exhibition of programs and databases.
The Program in Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host its annual Ethics in Healthcare conference on May 19, 2017 in the Medical Education and Research Facility (MERF). This conference is designed to help healthcare professionals meet the challenges of the increasing number and range of ethical challenges in healthcare as they surface in their work as clinicians, members of ethics committees or ethics consult teams, and administrators.
Intended Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Social Workers, Chaplains, Physician Assistants, Trainees, Students, and Others
Provided by: The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and the Program in Bioethics and Humanities
Call for Proposals
Symposium: The Medicalization of Poverty
November 2-3 2017, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(Resulting Papers to be published in The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (2018))
It is well documented that a number of diseases are strongly linked to poverty, and poverty is a strong predictor of health status. A second aspect of poverty is less well-explored: we have medicalized poverty. We spend inordinate amounts of money and other resources to address healthcare needs brought on by poverty instead of providing for the tangible needs of the poor before illness strikes. We treat the symptom, not the problem. How can we do better?
This Symposium will bring together experts on the connection between poverty, disease burden, and healthcare expenditures to explore creative approaches for improving the life chances of the most disadvantaged among us. The healthcare system itself may have a transformative role to play. And local, state, and federal governments may be able to shape the contours of that role—for example, by supporting innovative community-based approaches to poverty through tax policies for nonprofit hospitals. Presenters will examine not only how healthcare providers can be agents of change, but also whether there are levers that policymakers can pull to lessen poverty’s cost.
The Symposium will be co-convened by Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson, Director of the Epstein Health Law and Policy Program at the University of Illinois College and Law, and Professor Lois Shepherd, Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Public Health Sciences, and Law at the University of Virginia.
Confirmed participants include:
* Professor Mark Hall, Director of Health Law and Policy Program, the Wake Forest School of Law
* Ruth Gaare Bernheim, Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Virginia and Co-Director of The Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life
* Professor Richard Kaplan, the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law at the University of Illinois and a leading expert in elder law
* Professor Dayna Matthew, the Director of the Health Law and Policy Program and Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, a well-respected voice in public heath
* Professor Mary Crossley, a leading disability scholar and former dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
* Professor Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, the J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law
* Professor William M. Sage, James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law
* Professor David Orentlicher, Co-Director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
* Professor Ruby Mendenhall of the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois
* Professor David A. Hyman, Georgetown University School of Law
* Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson, Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law, Director of Epstein Health Law and Policy Program, University of Illinois College of Law
* Professor Daniel Becker, Tussi and John Kluge Professor of Palliative Medicine and Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, University of Virginia School of Medicine
* Professor Monica Uddin, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois
* Professor Lois Shepherd, Peter A. Wallenborn, Jr. and Dolly F. Wallenborn Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Professor of Health Sciences, Professor of Law, University of Virginia
The Symposium is sponsored by:
* The Epstein Health Law and Policy Program at the University of Illinois College of Law<www.law.illinois.e
* The University of Virginia School of Medicine Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities<med.virgini
* The University of Virginia School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences<med.virginia.
* The Carle Foundation
* The Carle Illinois College of Medicine
* The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology<www.igb.illinoi
* The Family Law & Policy Program<www.law.illino
We are seeking proposals for presentations and symposium articles. Proposals by newer scholars are especially welcome, including graduate students, visiting assistant professors, and professors before tenure. Proposals from newer scholars will be given special consideration.
Each invited scholar will have a 15-minute presentation time plus added time for Q&A, so there should be plenty of time to explore your ideas with some depth. Selected scholars will submit short thought pieces for publication in a 2018 issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics by January 15, 2018, of roughly 4500 words, inclusive of endnotes.
We will provide travel and accommodations to selected scholars. Invited scholars are expected to attend the entire conference.
While all proposals relating to the Medicalization of Poverty will be considered, the conference organizers are particularly interested in receiving proposals on the following questions:
* How can Big Data play a role here?
* Community health needs assessments—who drives them and how they are done?
* Models and measurements of community resilience
* Is there a role for health systems to play and are there successful programs that should be scaled up?
* Are we giving enough attention to mental health care and its effects on physical health? Are we giving the right kinds of attention to mental health?
* What role does education and health education play in health outcomes that become to subject of medical/hospital care?
* Is a convergence of health systems and public health systems needed or fruitful?
Please limit abstracts for your proposal to 250 words. The deadline for proposals is May 15, 2017. Submissions will receive a response by May 31, 2017.
Proposals should be sent to Professors Wilson and Shepherd at Wilson@Illinois.edu. More information about the conference can be found at law.illinois.edu/facul
Symposium Editors
Robin Fretwell Wilson<www.law.illinoi
Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law
Co-Director, Epstein Health Law and Policy Program
Director, Family Law and Policy Program
University of Illinois College of Law
Lois Shepherd, J.D.<content.law.virgi
Peter A. Wallenborn, Jr. and Dolly F. Wallenborn Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Professor of Public Health Sciences
Professor of Law
University of Virginia
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities
The Center for Ethics at Yenepoya University in Mangalore, Karnataka, India will host the Fifth IAEE Conference in November 2017.
The theme of the conference is: Curricular innovations in ethics education.
The International Association for Education in Ethics (IAEE) was established in 2011 as a platform to promote education in ethics at a global level. Its objectives are:
* To exchange and analyse experiences with teaching of ethics in educational settings
* To promote development of knowledge and methods of ethics education
* To function as a global centre of contact for experts in this field
* To enhance the teaching of ethics at national, regional and internationals levels
Healthcare ethical dilemmas are rarely black and white. The gray area, where different perspectives intersect, is where difficult questions arise. What can we do as healthcare professionals to have more clarity in these unsure situations?
Advancing ethical practice in health-care requires grappling with difficult, often complex ethical problems and dilemmas. In this new forum, a diverse group of ethicists, philosophers, nurses, and other healthcare professionals will meet to address contemporary ethical issues in healthcare, and will discuss solutions to the most challenging problems for ethical practice and policy. The first biennial Carol Carfang Nursing & Healthcare Ethics Conference, sponsored by the Duquesne University School of Nursing, includes three days of speakers, panels, and presentations, as well as receptions and other opportunities to meet, greet, and discuss with a wide array of professionals interested in healthcare ethics. Please join us in Clearwater, Florida in February for this unique opportunity.
This conference will be organised by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon. The relationships between medicine, arts and the humanities are multifaceted owing to the intricate ways in which they reflect and are conditioned by basic traits of the human condition. Art, humanities and medicine have pivotal roles in shaping our cultural and individual self-understanding. Medicine, whilst being regarded as a dominantly scientific endeavour, is also referred to as the art of healing. At least some medical illustrations and 3D models can arguably be seen as art. In addition, cosmetic dentistry and surgery are informed by aesthetic criteria. Vice versa, art can be seen as a form of therapy. The humanities, finally, play an increasingly important role in both medical education and clinical practice. In a time of kaleidoscopic change in medical research, clinical practice and healthcare systems, the focus of this conference is on medicine and its relations with the arts and the humanities. Abstracts addressing any of the issues mentioned in the headings below from a philosophical and/or ethical perspective will be favoured, although work on other topics can also be submitted.
Human Condition
- Birth
- Childhood & adolescence
- Love, sex & reproduction
- Illness/disease
- Aging
- Mortality and death
Arts and medicine
- Literature and medicine
- Music, dance, theatre, visual arts and literature and their role in supporting health and wellbeing
- Popular culture
Narratives
- Narrative medicine
- Life cycle and human condition: Between biology and biography
- Health narratives and the fabrication of truth
- Shaping identity and reconfiguration of medicine
- Art, science-fiction, scientific imagination
Humanities and medicine
- Medical and health humanities
- History
- Film and theatre studies
- Religious/theological studies
- Medical anthropology
Hope between uncertainty and complexity
- Progress and sustainability
- Artificial intelligence in medicine /health care
- Robotics (care, social and/or sex robots)
- Cybersex, cyborgs, cryonics and solitude
- Transhumanism and science fiction
Museums
- Intellectual property and conflict management
- Creativity, censorship, viability and sponsorship
- Decoding, artification of medical objects
- Access to, dispersion and disposal of medical collections
- Indigenous peoples and vulnerable populations
This three-day conference, sponsored by Global Bioethics Initiative and Stasis Foundation, offers a unique opportunity to call attention to the impact of new technologies on the global profile of aging and longevity. By facilitating expert discussion in a unique setting regarding broad-based perspectives on these topics, the conference promotes global thinking, scientific exploration and policy orientation at the individual, social, community and macro-societal level.
The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity’s 25th Annual Conference: Bioethics & Being Human
Join us for our 25th annual summer conference, as we explore anew our individual and common humanity in light of the ever-evolving developments in medicine, science, and technology. Plenary speakers will address being and remaining human in an age of science and technology, genetics, neuroscience & the BRAIN Initiative; bioethics in literature and pop culture; human rights & dignity; and theological examinations of contentment, human flourishing, particularity, and embodiment as they relate to bioethics.
Engage more personally in workshops and parallel sessions on a wide spectrum of perennial and emerging issues in contemporary bioethics relevant to professional practice, public policy, scholarship, the classroom, and making moral decisions in everyday life.
Plenary speakers include Christina Bieber Lake, PhD; Dennis Hollinger, PhD; C. Christopher Hook, MD; Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD; Paul Scherz, PhD, PhD; Read Mercer Schuchardt, PhD; Michael Sleasman, PhD; Pia de Solenni, SThD; Morse Tan, JD; and Stephen Williams, PhD.
Conference workshops are sponsored by leading organizations such as Alliance Defending Freedom, American Association of Prolife OB|GYNS, Americans United for Life, Charlotte Lozier Institute, and Joni & Friends. These workshops include sessions on rights of conscience, disability, pain management & addiction, among others.
Conference rates are reduced in honor of CBHD’s 25th anniversary. Continuing Medical Education credit is pending and expected to be available.
The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity is a Christian bioethics research center at Trinity International University committed to anticipating, interpreting, and engaging the pressing bioethical issues of our day from a Judeo-Christian Hippocratic perspective.
This conference will be organised by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon. The relationships between medicine, arts and the humanities are multifaceted owing to the intricate ways in which they reflect and are conditioned by basic traits of the human condition. Art, humanities and medicine have pivotal roles in shaping our cultural and individual self-understanding. Medicine, whilst being regarded as a dominantly scientific endeavour, is also referred to as the art of healing. At least some medical illustrations and 3D models can arguably be seen as art. In addition, cosmetic dentistry and surgery are informed by aesthetic criteria. Vice versa, art can be seen as a form of therapy. The humanities, finally, play an increasingly important role in both medical education and clinical practice. In a time of kaleidoscopic change in medical research, clinical practice and healthcare systems, the focus of this conference is on medicine and its relations with the arts and the humanities. Abstracts addressing any of the issues mentioned in the headings below from a philosophical and/or ethical perspective will be favoured, although work on other topics can also be submitted.
Human Condition
- Birth
- Childhood & adolescence
- Love, sex & reproduction
- Illness/disease
- Aging
- Mortality and death
Arts and medicine
- Literature and medicine
- Music, dance, theatre, visual arts and literature and their role in supporting health and wellbeing
- Popular culture
Narratives
- Narrative medicine
- Life cycle and human condition: Between biology and biography
- Health narratives and the fabrication of truth
- Shaping identity and reconfiguration of medicine
- Art, science-fiction, scientific imagination
Humanities and medicine
- Medical and health humanities
- History
- Film and theatre studies
- Religious/theological studies
- Medical anthropology
Hope between uncertainty and complexity
- Progress and sustainability
- Artificial intelligence in medicine /health care
- Robotics (care, social and/or sex robots)
- Cybersex, cyborgs, cryonics and solitude
- Transhumanism and science fiction
Museums
- Intellectual property and conflict management
- Creativity, censorship, viability and sponsorship
- Decoding, artification of medical objects
- Access to, dispersion and disposal of medical collections
- Indigenous peoples and vulnerable populations
The 24th World Congress on Medical Law and Bioethics (www.wcml2018.com) will take place in Tel Aviv from 2-5 September 2018. The main themes of the Congress are Ethical and Legal aspects of Forensic Medicine, Mental Health, Humanitarian Medicine, Health Professions, Ageing and Public Health.
Participants are also encourages to submit their papers to The Davies Awards competition (on the Rights to Health, Old Age, Gerontology, Law and Ethics and Public Health, Law and Ethics) or to the young Scholars competition (under 36 years).
Join the Hall Center for Law and Health and the Indiana Health Law Review as they host their annual symposium on October 18, 2019 at Inlow Hall.
Check the website for updated information and registration: mckinneylaw.iu.edu/events/current.html?eid=740
Parking:
Parking is available for a nominal fee at the campus Gateway Garage, located on the corner of Michigan and California Streets (Address is 525 Blackford Street).
Parking is also available for a nominal fee at the Sports Complex Garage two blocks west of the law school.
Special Accommodations:
Individuals with disabilities who need special assistance should call (317) 274-8036 no later than one week prior to the event. Special arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs.
20th Asian Bioethics Conference (ABC20) will be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, organized by Bangladesh Bioethics Society (BBS) in the cooperation with Asian Bioethics Association (ABA) and Eubios Ethics Institute, Thailand, New Zeeland’s and Japan. It provides opportunity for all scholars around the world to gather feedback on their research, maximize networking opportunities, and learn the latest news and information and methodologies on bioethics.
The previous conferences was held in China, Japan, Korea, Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Iran, the Philippines and Taiwan.
Our roles in healthcare call us to be moral agents, promoting beneficence in our care and interaction with others. This responsibility is complicated, as our agency necessitates commitments to many (patients, their families, society), our professional relationships within organizations, and our commitment to the goals and values of our professions. In a sense, we are double, and at times, triple agents who face competing obligations, and at times encounter limitations and obstacles as we try to meet them. If we feel caught in this bind, we must consider how to move beyond the idea of “fixing it,” which can trap us in narrowed perspectives. Our fast-paced environments and habituation to quick responses and timely reaction can also limit creativity and reflection in these moments. Yet it is in these instances, amidst the pressures, that we need to pause, to see the bigger picture and discern an ethical response. This process is not always graceful, but even if we blunder, reflection and debriefing teach us how we might respond differently in the future. The 2020 NNEC provides an opportunity to learn how to appreciate ethical humility, develop ethical competence, cultivate ethical cultures, and appreciate the complexity of being moral agents and acting in more well-informed and virtuous ways.
Speaking with patients or their families after a medical error or an adverse medical event is one of the most difficult and emotionally challenging conversations any clinician can have. Handling it well is critical for your patient’s experience, your own resilience, and your institution. You can learn to have such a conversation with good preparation, presence and compassion. This workshop will introduce clinicians to the understanding, ethical underpinnings, best practices, tools, and skills to conduct these difficult conversations.
As we continue to navigate challenges within and beyond healthcare, many, if not all of us, are weary in body, mind, and spirit. Yet we can look to our ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, which reminds us that while our primary commitment is the patient, we owe the same duties to ourselves as to others. This duty to self includes our responsibility to promote our own health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, and continue personal and professional growth.
Living these core values, including promotion of human dignity and social justice as we navigate a global pandemic and a national reckoning with systemic racism seems more difficult than ever before. Mindful of the conundrum that nurses’ obligations may diverge as we try to fulfill values, expectations, and commitments under such pressing times, dialogue becomes essential. Ethics of Caring and the NNEC has always had a mission of exploring the intersection of caring and ethics and will again provide a platform for the supportive discourse so essential at this time.
Together, we will reflect, share, and learn in an engaging experience toward the goal of grounding our integrity and fostering our hopes for a more positive future that includes protection of human rights and achievement of health equity.
Please join us for this half-day virtual conference to renew your energy and spirit.
