The 16th Annual International Conference on Clinical Ethics & Consultation

The 16th Annual International Conference on Clinical Ethics & Consultation is organized by ConsultUS (Pty) Ltd and will be held from Dec 15 - 18, 2020 at Spier Hotel and Conference Centre, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa.

Description:
The Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University hosts its 16th Annual International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation (ICCEC) in Cape Town, South Africa. This is the first time that the ICCEC will be hosting on the African continent with the theme "Beyond Borders: exploring new frontiers" is apt. The session will explore clinical challenges in ethics that traverse borders and shift paradigms against a backdrop of cultural complexity and difference.

The ethical challenges raised by the theme will be of interest to health care professionals and scholars, bioethicists, legal scholars, policymakers, and health science partners from around the world. The session looks forward to share the ideas to provide new and diverse perspectives on clinical ethics that will serve to step beyond our boundaries of comfort to experience different philosophical systems that influence decision making in clinical ethics in different parts of the world. The session is especially relevant as geographical borders and becomes more permeable for the migration patterns bring cultural diversity and ethical challenges to various corners of the globe.

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