“medicine, philosophy and the humanities”: 23–26 august, 2006helsinki, finlandcall for...
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doi:10.1016/j.so
Social Science & Medicine 61 (2005) 2063
XXth EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE ANDHEALTH CARE
www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed
‘‘Medicine, philosophy and the humanities’’
23–26 August, 2006
Helsinki, Finland
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
This conference will be organised by the European Society
for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH) and
die Finnish Society for Philosophy of Medicine. Abstracts
addressing the following topics can be submitted:
Nature of medicine*
Medicine between science and humanities
Philosophy and alternative/complementary medicine
Philosophy in medical education
Humanities in medical education
Medicine as a resource for philosophy
Philosophy as a resource for medicine
Literary representations of philosophy and medicine
Medicine and metaphysics
Aesthetics and other human values in medicine
The embodied human
*By using the terms medicine and medical we do not
intend to exclude nursing or other health care professions
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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 (500 words maximum) before
December 1, 2005. Abstracts will be selected for oral
presentation by the Conference Program Committee.
Please send abstracts (through E-mail or on diskette in
Word) to
Dr. Bert Gordijn
(Secretary of the ESPMH)
Department of Ethics,
Philosophy and History of Medicine,
University Medical Centre Nijmegen,
P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen,
The Netherlands
E-mail addresses: [email protected],