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Call for Abstracts: XXth European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care

XXth European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care: “Medicine, philosophy and the humanities”
23–26 August, 2006
Helsinki, Finland

This conference is organized 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; and The embodied human.

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
Radbound University Nijmegen Medical Centre
PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Email: b.gordijn@efg.umcn.nl

For more information, please visit http://www.espmh.cm-uj.krakow.pl/ .