Vienna deputy Mayor Maria Vassilakou visited Utrecht (NL) and we interviewed her about Caring Cities. Continue reading Caring Cities
It’s just about fair play, tax policies revealed
The Town That Took on the Taxman, a revealing documentary on tax policies. Continue reading It’s just about fair play, tax policies revealed
Welfare in hard times
A striking concern with austerity policies and its consequences for citizens and social workers. That is the central impression I’ve got at the conference, organized by the journal Ethics and Social Welfare, on Sept. 1-2, 2016 in London. Continue reading Welfare in hard times
Course on Nursing Ethics
The objective of the 6th edition of this course is to foster exchanges on foundational and methodological approaches as well as on contemporary and educational issues in nursing ethics. Continue reading Course on Nursing Ethics
(Self-)representation; One for All, All for One?
A workshop to address ethical, sociological and normative-political questions concerning the assumption that patient organizations (POs) represent a larger group of affected persons and the justification of advocacy by others. Continue reading (Self-)representation; One for All, All for One?
Art & psychiatry
The nine symptoms that were indicated in the DSM IV as typical of borderline personality disorder say a lot about the current state of society. At the exhibition Borderline Times the focus shifts from the individual to the collective.