European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) Annual Conference 2018: Ethics in action

European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) 35th Annual Conference: Ethics in action is organized by European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) and will be held from Sep 06 - 08, 2018 at VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.

The conference ‘Ethics in action’ will focus on the following four themes:

Towards a further professionalization of Clinical Ethics Support (CES)
• CES’s contribution to quality of care and moral competence
• Quality and certification of CES (staff)
• Training of CES staff and teaching ethics
• Implementation and evaluation research of CES
• Empirical ethics: theory and method of reaching normative conclusions within CES

Rethinking the ethics of ageing and the end of life:
• Decision making in end-of-life situations
• Elderly care and social justice: mapping the moral complexities
• The moral perils and principles of palliative care
• Ethics of long-term care
• Rethinking "health" in the context of ageing and chronic illness

Chances and challenges of participation and diversity
• Responsibility and integrity in research
• Symbolic vs. substantial participation of people with disabilities
• Reaching diversity in research: a moral obligation?
• Discomforting reflexivity practices for researchers
• Moral challenges of inclusion

Resilience and recovery in psychiatry:
• Reflection on moral dilemmas in psychiatry
• Coercive measures in the clinic & the outpatient setting
• End-of-life decision-making in psychiatry
• Autonomy and competency in psychiatry
• The involvement of peers and relatives in mental health care

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.