CfP: Research Ethics Committees
This
workshop seeks to bring together scholars interested in medical
research ethics and regulation
to discuss their origins and development in various historical and
national contexts. On an empirical level, focus might be placed on the
policies, guidelines, institutions and organizations designed to impose
ethical regulations on medical research on humans
in different countries. This may include analyses of the social,
political, economic and cultural conditions under which these regulatory
frameworks and regimes appeared and developed.
This
workshop will highlight various analytical and theoretical perspectives
on the development of medical research ethics. Our aim is to provide an
opportunity
to work together and acquire a close reading of ongoing research, by
circulating papers/work-in-progress texts in advance,
and with the possible production of a joint publication.
We welcome contributions interested in the history of medical research
ethics which represent a diversity of viewpoints from the humanities and
the social sciences.
We especially, but not exclusively, are interested in papers and work-in-progress presentations related to the following topics:
- How has the practice of regulating medical research ethics evolved in different historical settings and contexts?
- How can we further the understanding of various national regulation regimes? What are the determinants of their different trajectories – from local context to extra-national influences?
- What actors and institutions have been involved, and what relations have been formed between the medical community, the political arena, and the media?
- RECs as manifestations of changing political, cultural and moral conceptions that underlay a set of new governance regimes for medical research in the post-war era.
Abstract deadline
Abstracts
for papers or work-in-progress presentations, of a maximum of 300
words, should be submitted no later than March 22, 2019, to Morag.Ramsey@idehist.uu.se.
Please provide your full name, institutional affiliation, and contact
details. The number of participants is limited. We will evaluate the
abstracts based on the originality of the research and the relevance to
the theme of the workshop. The workshop language
is English. If you are accepted, please note that papers should be
submitted for circulation no later than May 13, 2019, to Morag Ramsey.
Workshop organization
The
workshop will run for two full days, i.e., morning to late afternoon
May 28–29, 2019. Registration, lunches and conference dinner are free of
charge for
all participants. Two nights accommodation is also included for those
participants presenting papers.
Applicants will be notified if their papers have been accepted by March 31, 2019.
If
you would like to attend without a paper or a presentation, the
deadline for application is also March 22, 2019, the number of
participants is limited.
Please indicate your reasons for wanting to take part in the workshop.
The
workshop is organized by the research program ”Medicine at the Borders
of Life: Fetal Research and the Emergence of Ethical Controversy in
Sweden” which
is funded by the Swedish Research Council and hosted by the Department
of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden (http://medicalborders.se/).
For more information, please visit
http://www.idehist.uu.se/