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Emerging technologies in healthcare
The focus of this conference is on pressing ethical en philosophical issues that come with increased use of technologies in healthcare. Foto: ANP/EPA
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Ethics in Nursing and Care submit abstract before March 1
In 2017, both the International Care Ethics Observatory of the University of Surrey (UK) and the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law of the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) will organize the 18th Nursing Ethics Conference and the 3rd International Ethics in Care Conference. An excellent occasion to reflect on the present and future challenges and opportunities for ethics in nursing and care. The focus of this year’s conference is on a variety of highly relevant ethical issues in nursing…
Find out more »Caring Democracy: Current Topics in the Political Theory of Care – Call for papers
Call for papers (to be submitted by August 31) Key note speaker will be Joan Tronto! The aim of the conference is to elaborate on Tronto’s invitation to rethink the very substance of democracy from the care perspective. The participants will enjoy the opportunity to discuss a variety of questions opened up by Tronto’s application of care theory to democratic theory. You may submit an abstract on any topic relevant to the theme of the conference before August 31. For…
Find out more »Suffering, Death and Palliative Care
March 20 - 23, 2018, Advanced European Bioethics Course ‘Suffering, Death and Palliative Care’, ethical issues of medically assisted death and palliative care in a pluralistic world. The course consists of a series of lectures, discussions, parallel sessions and audiovisual materials centered around a variety of topics: autonomy and dependence; palliative sedation and euthanasia; spirituality and palliative care; quality of life and a good death; scientific research in palliative care; moral deliberation.The key-note lecture will be held by prof. Allan…
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