>Disability and Ethics through the Life Cycle:
>Cases, Controversies, & Finding Common Ground
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>May 21-22, 2010
>Union College, Schenectady, NY
>
>Despite a common interest in facilitating good
>medical care, bioethicists and members of the
>disability rights community sometimes differ in
>their approach to issues arising in the
>bio-medical settings, especially on such
>polarizing issues as abortion and
>physician-assisted suicide. Focusing on these
>polarizing issues, however, distracts attention
>from other ethical issues that affect people
>with disabilities in biomedical contexts. This
>conference will offer a forum for bioethicists,
>disability-rights advocates, and other
>stakeholders for discussing these issues by
>viewing disability from a life -cycle
>perspective. People confront disability through
>the life cycle: infancy, childhood, reproductive
>years, middle age, and old age. At each age they
>confront situations with ethical dimensions that
>present them, their families, and their
>caregivers and biomedical researchers with
>ethical challenges. This conference is designed
>to promote interdisciplinary conversations about
>these less frequently discussed ethical issues.
>
>We are soliciting contributed papers or panels
>for highly interactive sessions. Those
>interested should submit a 250-word abstract
>describing original work that does not
>substantially overlap with papers already
>published. Topics of interest include but are
>not limited to specific cases where disability
>generates ethical issues during infancy,
>childhood, the reproductive years, middle age,
>and old age, or research on people with
>disabilities. Because of the conference’s
>life-cycle focus, no papers on prenatal issues
>or assisted suicide will be considered.
>
>The authors of accepted submissions will be
>invited to present their work at the conference.
>Presentations on these papers should not exceed
>20 minutes in length. Accepted papers will be
>considered for publication in a printed volume
>to be edited by conference organizers.
>
>General & Format Guidelines for Abstract Submission
>1. Abstracts must not exceed 250 words
>2. Abstracts should contain the names,
>degrees and institutions of all authors
>3. Abstracts should contain the contact
>information of at least one author (the
>submitting author), including an email address
>4. Abstracts should be submitted to
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>5. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 March 2010
>6. Email notification of accepted abstracts will be sent by 5 April 2010
>7. The presenting author(s) of a contributed
>paper must register for the conference and pay
>the registration fee $ 150 in order to have the
>paper included in the conference.
>
>Sponsors: Albany Law School, Rapaport Ethics
>Across the Curriculum Program of Union College,
>& the Union Graduate College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program
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