Theme
Bioethics and Ethics Consultation in a Diversified World
Session
Cultural Diversities and Global Bioethics
Bioethics and Humanities
Methodology in Bioethics Consultation
Principles and Ethics Consultation
Ethics Consultation and Ethics Committee/Review Board
Influence of Cultural, Ethical, Religious Commitments on Consultation
Consultation and Ethical Decision-making
Justice and Health Care
Contextualized Bioethics
End of Life Care
Abstract submission
Deadline : Sept 15, 2008
Notification of Acceptance : Oct 15, 2008
International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation (ICCEC) Series
Background
This series of conferences was founded by George J. Agich and Stella Reiter-Theil to fill a significant gap that they perceived in the field: the gap between the explosion of clinical ethics, ethics committees, and ethics consultation services around the world on the one hand and the relative lack of critical and academic discussion of the many practical, institutional, and ethical issues associated with this work on the other. Each conference is organized by a local host, in close collaboration with the founders. An international program committee supports the development of the program, including the formulation of the program theme and managing reviews of abstracts.
The Series
1. ICCEC
The inaugural conference in the series, Clinical Ethics Consultation: First International Assessment Summit was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on April 4-6, 2003 with sponsorship by a large group of international societies including the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Australian-Asian Bioethics Society, Canadian Bioethics Society, European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, European Association of Centers of Medical Ethics, International Association of Bioethics Education Network, and the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. These organizations recognized that although ethics committees and formal ethics consultation services have grown rapidly in North America and spread to Europe and other parts of the world during the last two decades, opportunities for open discussion of challenges involved in ethics consultation and clinical ethics in general have lagged. This conference was an effort to fill this gap. It was held in Cleveland and attracted more than 150 participants, mostly from North America and Europe.
Buerkli, P.: 2003, _Clinical ethics consultation¡Vfirst international assessment summit_, Ethik in der Medizin 15,250¡V252.
2. ICCEC
The second International Conference: Clinical Ethics Consultation was held in Basel, Switzerland on March 17-20, 2005. The meeting was hosted by the Institute for Applied Ethics and Medical Ethics ¡V now named "Department for Medical and Health Ethics" - Medical Faculty / University Hospital Basel, the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation with the support of renowned Swiss foundations. Participation in this meeting doubled from the Cleveland conference to over 300, with considerable international participation. As the first event in the field of clinical ethics consultation taking pace on an international scale, the Basel conference received much attention. The Basel conference further developed the focus on reflection and research on clinical ethics consultation. The publication of two thematic journal issues resulted from this conference and two conference reports.
Reiter-Theil S, Agich GJ (eds) (2008) Thematic Section "Research on Clinical Ethics and Consultation". Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. A European Journal. 11, 1
Agich GJ, Reiter-Theil S (eds) (in progress/2009) Special Issue "Clinical Ethics Consultation". Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics
Slowther A.M.: _Conference Report. 2nd International Conference: Clinical Ethics Consultation, March 17¡V20, 2005, Basel, Switzerland_. EACME Newsletter 13, April:http://www.eacmeweb.com/file.asp?lang=en&page=newsletter/n13.htm.
3. ICCEC
The third International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation was held as a joint meeting with the Canadian Bioethics Society in Toronto, Canada on May 30 ¡V June 3, 2007. Participation was extremely positive and the collaborative arrangement between the Canadian Bioethics Society and the ICCEC enjoyed a remarkable success with over 600 participants in the joint meeting. At this meeting, plans were made to have schedule annual, rather than biannual, meetings beginning in 2008. As a result of the enlarged scope of the conference program, a rich variety of thematic sessions was offered and brought together the often separate communities of bioethics and clinical ethics.
4. ICCEC
The Fourth International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation will be held in Rijeka, Croatia on September 5, 2008 as a satellite of the 9th World Congress of Bioethics of the International Association of Bioethics. Responsibility for the program organization rests with Stella Reiter-Theil, George Agich in collaboration with Iva Sorta as the local host. The goal of this year's conference is to focus again on CEC as a practice to be reflected and discussed on the background of experiences and cases. Another, more special interest, is to invite colleagues from countries in transition to the dialogue. A poster session on quality and educational issues of CEC will round out the one day plenary program. This satellite conference will be complemented with sessions on clinical ethics consultation and clinical ethics scheduled during the World Congress of Bioethics, September 5-8, 2008.
http://www.bioethics2008rijeka.info/en/fourth_international_conference_on_clinical_ethics
5. ICCEC
The 5th International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation with the theme ¡§ Bioethics and Ethics Consultation in a Diversified World ¡§ will be held in Taiwan from March 9 to 14, 2009. The first two days ( March 9 and 10) will be held jointly with the International Society for Clinical Bioethics as a pre-conference to the 5th ICCEC at Chungshan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan ( Taichung is the third largest city of Taiwan with population of one million and 2.5 hours away by car from Taipei, the capital ). Those who attend this pre-conference will be issued a Certificate of Attendance by the university. This pre-conference will focus its discussion on bioethics in a diversified world. A banquet will be held to welcome the attendees in the evening of March 9 at the Hotel National. A tour bus will take everyone on March 11 to Taipei for the official conference of 5th ICCEC from March 12 to 14 to be held at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan¡¦s premier research center whose former president is a Noble Prize laureate. The theme of discussion in Taipei will be on Clinical Ethics and Consultation in a Diversified World.
This 5th ICCEC is organized by Dr. Michael Cheng-tek Tai, a dean at the Chungshan Medical University and the president of ISCB with help from Dr.Agich and Dr. Reiter Theil. Sponsoring bodies include Chungshan Medical University, Taiwan Bioethics Association, Academia Sinica, Taiwan¡¦s Ministry of Health, Taiwan¡¦s National Research Council¡Ketc.
6. ICCEC
The Sixth International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation will have the theme: ¡§The Art of Clinical Ethics,¡¨ and will be held in the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, OR) on May 11-14, 2010.