Health, Culture and the Human Body
Subject: CfP (reminder): Health, Culture and the Human Body
Reminder and final call for abstracts
An international and interdisciplinary conference on
Health, Culture and the Human Body
Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from
Central Europe and Turkey
Mainz, Germany, 17-19 September 2010
New developments in medicine, preventive and therapeutic interventions
are raising novel ethical questions in societies undergoing fast
demographic change at home while participating in global interactions
through travel and migration. Diverse value-cultures may affect the
responses to well-established themes in medicine, giving rise to
complex ethical debates and different legal regulations.
This conference will focus on selected cases from Turkey, Germany, and
other countries closely connected by substantial migration processes,
and previously by medical sciences and clinical practice. These
interactions will be analysed jointly from historical,
epidemiological, and ethical perspectives, paving the way for the
implementation of an interdisciplinary “medicine studies” approach in
the field of intercultural and migration medicine.
(See also: www.springer.com/philosophy/philosophy+of+sciences/journal/12376)
The chosen thematic areas are:
infectious diseases (e.g., plague, leprosy, cholera,
tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS)
the end of life (e.g., patient autonomy vs. family autonomy,
advance directives, active and passive euthanasia, palliative care)
dealing with the human body (e.g., anatomical research, organ
donation, biomaterial in international studies)
migration and medicine
A significant number of high-quality abstracts has already been
received, but there are a few slots left. Abstracts (max. 250 words)
of proposed conference papers need to be submitted by 31 January 2010,
to the attention of Ilhan Ilkilic MD PhD, E-Mail: ilkilic@uni-mainz.de
(Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz Medical Centre, Germany,
Phone +49-(0)-6131-3937343, Fax +49-(0)-6131-3936682)
Publication of selected papers is envisaged.
Venue: Mainz Academy of Letters and Sciences, Mainz, Germany
Organising institutions:
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Medical Centre (Germany)
University of Bremen, Bremen Institute for Prevention Research
and Social Medicine (BIPS)
Istanbul University (Turkey)
Invited speaker (preliminary list in alphabetical order):
Seval Akgün (Ankara/TR); Şahin Aksoy (Urfa/TR); Monika Bobbert
(Heidelberg/D); Theda Borde (Berlin/D); Rainer Brömer (Mainz/D;
Istanbul/TR); Hakan Ertin (Istanbul/TR); Hanzade Doğan (Istanbul/TR);
Franz Dumont (Mainz/D); Altan Heper (Stuttgart/D); Ilhan Ilkilic
(Mainz/D); İrfan İnce (Sakarya/TR); Alexander Krämer (Bielefeld/D);
Werner Kümmel (Mainz/D); Hans-Uwe Lammel (Rostock/D); Recep Öztürk
(Istanbul/TR); Norbert W. Paul (Mainz/D); Oliver Razum (Bielefeld/D);
Nil Sarı (Istanbul/TR); Hans-Martin Sass (Washington/USA; Bochum/D);
Jacob Spallek (Mainz; Bremen/D); Yener Ünver (Istanbul/TR); Nükhet
Varlık (Harrisonburg/USA); Nuran Yıldırım (Istanbul/TR); Hajo Zeeb
(Mainz; Bremen/D)
Internet: www.healthandculture2010.de
Reminder and final call for abstracts
An international and interdisciplinary conference on
Health, Culture and the Human Body
Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from
Central Europe and Turkey
Mainz, Germany, 17-19 September 2010
New developments in medicine, preventive and therapeutic interventions
are raising novel ethical questions in societies undergoing fast
demographic change at home while participating in global interactions
through travel and migration. Diverse value-cultures may affect the
responses to well-established themes in medicine, giving rise to
complex ethical debates and different legal regulations.
This conference will focus on selected cases from Turkey, Germany, and
other countries closely connected by substantial migration processes,
and previously by medical sciences and clinical practice. These
interactions will be analysed jointly from historical,
epidemiological, and ethical perspectives, paving the way for the
implementation of an interdisciplinary “medicine studies” approach in
the field of intercultural and migration medicine.
(See also: www.springer.com/philosophy/philosophy+of+sciences/journal/12376)
The chosen thematic areas are:
infectious diseases (e.g., plague, leprosy, cholera,
tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS)
the end of life (e.g., patient autonomy vs. family autonomy,
advance directives, active and passive euthanasia, palliative care)
dealing with the human body (e.g., anatomical research, organ
donation, biomaterial in international studies)
migration and medicine
A significant number of high-quality abstracts has already been
received, but there are a few slots left. Abstracts (max. 250 words)
of proposed conference papers need to be submitted by 31 January 2010,
to the attention of Ilhan Ilkilic MD PhD, E-Mail: ilkilic@uni-mainz.de
(Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz Medical Centre, Germany,
Phone +49-(0)-6131-3937343, Fax +49-(0)-6131-3936682)
Publication of selected papers is envisaged.
Venue: Mainz Academy of Letters and Sciences, Mainz, Germany
Organising institutions:
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Medical Centre (Germany)
University of Bremen, Bremen Institute for Prevention Research
and Social Medicine (BIPS)
Istanbul University (Turkey)
Invited speaker (preliminary list in alphabetical order):
Seval Akgün (Ankara/TR); Şahin Aksoy (Urfa/TR); Monika Bobbert
(Heidelberg/D); Theda Borde (Berlin/D); Rainer Brömer (Mainz/D;
Istanbul/TR); Hakan Ertin (Istanbul/TR); Hanzade Doğan (Istanbul/TR);
Franz Dumont (Mainz/D); Altan Heper (Stuttgart/D); Ilhan Ilkilic
(Mainz/D); İrfan İnce (Sakarya/TR); Alexander Krämer (Bielefeld/D);
Werner Kümmel (Mainz/D); Hans-Uwe Lammel (Rostock/D); Recep Öztürk
(Istanbul/TR); Norbert W. Paul (Mainz/D); Oliver Razum (Bielefeld/D);
Nil Sarı (Istanbul/TR); Hans-Martin Sass (Washington/USA; Bochum/D);
Jacob Spallek (Mainz; Bremen/D); Yener Ünver (Istanbul/TR); Nükhet
Varlık (Harrisonburg/USA); Nuran Yıldırım (Istanbul/TR); Hajo Zeeb
(Mainz; Bremen/D)
Internet: www.healthandculture2010.de