CALL FOR
ABSTRACTS
The 3rd
international and interdisciplinary conference on
Health,
Culture and the Human Body
Epidemiology,
ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from Turkey and Central Europe
Istanbul,
Turkey, 11-13 September 2014
Advances in
science-based medicine have greatly increased the range of applications to the
body and mind of human beings, blurring the boundaries between what is to be
considered a state of health or illness. A large number of interventions
already have a distinguished history, such as organ transplants,
pharmacological enhancement, plastic surgery, etc. Other developments, such as
delaying the process of aging by manipulating the molecular markers on our DNA
(telomeres), so far remain promises (or threats?) for the future. In this
regard this conference will focus on ethical, historical and epidemiological
perspectives on medical interventions into the healthy/diseased human body in
mid-life, including issues such as enhancement, surgical interventions, and the
ethics of transhumanism. Further subjects of the conference are the
epidemiology of organ transplants and the history and ethics of psychiatric
definitions, diagnostics, and therapies, which will also be discussed from an
interdisciplinary perspective. Palliative care and its intercultural aspects
are also among the main topics of the conference.
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 upcoming conference are:
- Organ
Transplantation (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, neurochips, other forms
of 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 28
February 2014, to the attention of Hakan Ertin MD PhD, E-Mail:
[log in to unmask] , 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, www.besikcizade.com
Organisation:
Hakan Ertin
MD, PhD (Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Ilhan Ilkilic
MD, PhD (Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Rainer Broemer
PhD (Istanbul University and BETIM, Istanbul, Turkey)
Inanc Ozekmekci
PhD (Erciyes University, Kayseri Turkey)
Hajo Zeeb,
MD, MSc, PhD (Bremen University and Leibniz Institute for Epidemiology and
Prevention Research – BIPS, Germany)