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Call for Abstracts

XIXth European conference on philosopy ofmedicine and healthcare

24–27 August, 2005Barcelona, Spain

Ethics and Philosophy of Emerging Medical

Technologies

Conference organised by the European Society for

Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH), the

European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics

(EACME) and the Institut Borja de Bio"etica, Universi-

tat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain.

The focus of the conference is on ethical and

philosophical issues in relation to emerging medical

technologies; Abstracts addressing the ethical and

philosophical dimensions of the following topics can

be submitted:

Philosophy of Technology

Confidentiality and Technology: ethical and legal

rights and duties

Responsibility for Future Generations

Sustainability

Cloning

Germ Line Interventions

Bioelectronics

Interventions in Biological Aging

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Tissue Engineering

Psychopharmacology

Neurosciences

Nanomedicine

Medical Utopianism

The Future of Medicine

Posthumanity

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 and philosophical dimen-

sions of the conference topics (500 words maximum)

before December 1, 2004. Papers will be selected from

the abstracts by the Conference Program Committee.

Kindly send abstracts (on diskette in Word or through

E-mail) to:

Dr. Bert Gordijn, Secretary of the ESPMH

Dept of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine

University Medical Centre Nijmegen

PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands

E-mail addresses: b.gordijn@efg.umcn.nl