Ethics seminars for 2024
Workshop
Offered by the St. André International Center for Ethics and Integrity (France)
St. André International Center for Ethics and Integrity is pleased to announce the following Ethics seminars for 2024
Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Contributions from the Arts and Humanities (February 11–17, 2024, in Rome, Italy)
Ethics Educators Workshop (September 16–20, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avignon, France)
Bioethics Colloquium (September 23–26, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avignon, France)
Health Care Ethics: Catholic Perspectives (October 22–26, 2024, in Rochefort du Gard, near Avignon, France)
More info here
If you are interested in participating or have questions about the seminars, please contact Dr. Jos Welie MA, MMeds, JD, PhD, FACD directly: info[at]saintandre.org.
„Transition in Health”
Workshop
Workshop at VANDA (Vienna Anthropology Days) 2024
Workshop „Transition in Health”
VANDA (Vienna Anthropology Days) Conferenceni in Vienna
September 23–26, 2024
Eva-Maria Knoll, Malgorzata Rajtar
Deadline: 01.06.2024
Anthropology has long been preoccupied with transition. Transitions, famously captured by Van Gennep’s “rites of passage” or Turner’s concept of “liminality”, punctuate human life, which is embedded in culture and society. Transition may also serve as a lens to analyze change and adaptation in society (e.g. Hasan 2023) and was extensively used in the context of postsocialism (e.g. Buyandelgeriyn 2008). Building on this long-standing tradition of anthropological engagement with the concept of transition, this workshop invites social science, in particular ethnographic contributions focusing on spatial, structural, and temporal aspects of transitions in the medical field. In medicine, transition is e.g. understood as a “multi-dimensional process, involving patients, caregivers, providers, and the medical system as a whole” (Cheng et al. 2021). Due to the development of medical technologies and treatment modalities, an increasing number of people with chronic and/or rare diseases reach adulthood and experience a transition from pediatric to adult care (Jae 2018). In some instances, this is uncharted territory for both patients and care providers. Transitions, as passages of change, may also be experienced on a mundane level by patients who change their dietary and/or drug regimens or by health personnel who climb the medical career ladder. We encourage ethnographically grounded analyses that address both large-scale transitions and mundane moments of transition in health and healthcare. We are also interested in papers examining failed transitions or transitions that had to be abandoned.
Sweden-oriented meeting for Medicine and Health Phd Students
Workshop
Meeting at Umea University, Sweden
Solidary pharma? Contemporary proposals for pharma reform in the European Union
Workshop
Online webinar
Online Webinar: Solidary pharma? Contemporary proposals for pharma reform in the European Union
23rd of October
3:00 – 4:30 pm CET
Registration: Please register to receive a link to the webinar. The link will be sent to you by e‑mail a few days before the webinar.
Details: At this webinar, we will discuss and compare two current policy proposals that include calls for more solidary practices in the pharmaceutical sector: 1) The ‘Pandemic Treaty’ that is currently negotiated, tabled by the President of the European Council in autumn 2021 and carried forward by the World Health Organization, and 2) the European Commission’s proposal for regulatory reform that addresses the authorization and supervision of medicinal products published in spring 2023.
These regulatory measures seem to develop through separate processes and are rarely discussed together. However, they share similar aims of providing for more equitable access and the sharing of critical medical resources internationally – albeit by different policy measures. We seek to identify the overlaps and discrepancies between the two policy proposals and reflect on what academics and civil society together might do to help direct them toward global solidarity.
Three distinguished speakers will provide a short introduction to the policy reforms and set the scene for discussion:
- Prof. Susi Geiger, University College Dublin
– Sara Rafael Almeida, Policy Officer, European Commission
– Jaume Vidal, Senior Policy Advisor, Health Action International