CfP: Health, Culture and the Human Body (Event, 09/2014, Istanbul); DL: 18.04.2014

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The 3rd internat. and interdisc. conference on Health, Culture and the Human Body Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from Turkey and Central Europe; Istanbul University, Bremen University and Leibniz Institute for Epidemiology and Prevention Research

Zeit: 11.-13.09.2014
Ort: Istanbul, Besikcizade Center for Medical Humanities
Deadline: 18.04.2014

The conference will be opened by the eminent ethicist Robert Veatch (Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University Washington DC).

This conference will focus on selected cases from Turkey, Germany, and other countries which for the last 50 years have been closely connected by substantial migration processes, as they had been earlier through medical scientific exchanges and common clinical practice. Building on the well received first two rounds on the beginning and the end of life, respectively, held in Germany (Mainz) in 2010 and in Turkey (Istanbul) in 2012, the aim of this third conference is to widen the discussion platform for different ethical considerations among historically connected countries, applying an interdisciplinary “medicine studies” approach to selected sample cases or population approaches from Turkey, Germany and other countries with comparable relationships.

The thematic areas chosen for the third conference are:

  • Organ Transplantation and brain death (organ donation: problems and solutions; health risks after transplantation; cultural differences in the acceptance of organ transplantation)
  • Modifications and Manipulations of the Human Body (plastic surgery, gender assignment surgery, neurochips, enhancement – e.g., pharmacological – doping or neuroenhancement; telomere research [extension of lifespan]; the ethics of transhumanism)
  • Psychiatry (autonomy in psychiatry, transcultural perspectives, historical and international connections in the development of modern psychiatry)
  • Palliative care and culture
  • Migration and health

Abstracts (max. 250 words) of proposed conference papers should be submitted by 18 April 2014, to the attention of Hakan Ertin MD PhD, E-Mail:bilgi@besikcizade.com , Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of History of Medicine and Ethics. Tel: +90 532 321 71 77 Fax: +90 212 414 22 86
Publication of selected papers is envisaged.

Venue: BETIM Center for Medical Humanities – Findikzade, Istanbul, Turkey

Confirmed speakers (provisional list in alphabetical order): Adem Akcakaya (Istanbul, TR), Constantin Canavas (Hamburg, D), Agop Citak (Istanbul, TR), Hanzade Dogan (Istanbul, TR), Gertrud Greif-Higer (Mainz, D), E. Shamsi Gooshki (Tehran, IR) Selim Kadioglu (Adana, TR), Petra Kutscheid (Dernbach, D), Reinhard Merkel (Hamburg, D, requested) Harun Özkan (Istanbul, TR), Livia Prüll (Mainz, D), Nil Sari (Istanbul, TR), Bilgin Saydam (Istanbul, TR), Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Berlin, D) Mashhood Ahmed Sheikh (Tromso, NO) Mehrunisha Suleman (Oxford, UK) Polina Vlasenko (Kharkiv, UA) Ibrahim Yildirim (Istanbul, TR), Nuran Yildirim (Istanbul, TR), Dror Ze’evi (Beer-Sheva, IL)

Kontakt:Rainer Brömer
Istanbul University Medical Faculty
Hulusi Behcet Library, Capa, Fatih, Istanbul
bilgi@besikcizade.com
URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrageshttp://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=24676

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