Registration open: ‘Attentive Writers’: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority

We’re delighted to announce that registration for the conference, ‘Attentive Writers’: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority, has opened. The conference will be hosted by the Medical Humanities Research Centre at the University of Glasgow from 23-25 August 2013. 

The plenary speakers will be: 

Professor Rita Charon (Columbia University): ‘To Write is to Undergo’

Professor Paul Crawford (University of Nottingham): ‘Treating fictions: Are patients real?’

Professor G. Thomas Couser (Hofstra University): ‘Vulnerable Subjects’

Darryl Cunningham: ‘Cartooning, Creativity, and Mental Health’

We are looking forward to welcoming speakers from a wide range of clinical, creative, academic, and service-user backgrounds.

The registration form and the draft programme are available on the conference website at: 
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/conferences/attentivewriters
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CFP: Special issue on ‘Shaping Identity’ of Journal of Philosophy, Science, and Law

Within the context of ongoing debates about medical and social models of disability, the Journal of Philosophy, Science, and Law invites authors to submit new manuscripts that address the ethical and legal implications of interventions aimed at modifying the bodies of individuals with physical or mental impairments or disabilities.

Topics suitable for this Call for Papers include but are not limited to ethical and legal issues emerging from:

The use of bionic eyes
The use of cochlear implants
Prosthetics for everyday use or competitive sports
“Normalizing” surgery for individuals with Down Syndrome
Limb lengthening surgeries (e.g., for individuals with achondroplasia)
The use of growth hormones
The use of “neuroenhancement” drugs (e.g., to improve focus, memory, or other cognitive functioning)
Laws that influence decision making on behalf of disabled children (e.g., the Swedish law requiring parents to consult with member of the Deaf community prior to agreeing to cochlear implant surgery for their child)
Growth attenuation procedures
Familial or community pressure to modify or refuse modifications of one’s body

Manuscripts submitted for inclusion in this special issue must be original work and should not be under consideration with any other journal. The word count for submitted manuscripts, including references and notes, should not exceed 5000 words. Manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words.

Authors should adhere to the Journal’s publication guidelines: http://www.miami.edu/ethics/jpsl/submission.html.

Authors should submit their manuscripts and abstracts via email attachments no later than October 1, 2013 to Dr. Yvette Pearson: ypearson[AT]odu[DOT]edu. Please write “JPSL Disability” in the email subject line.

Accepted manuscripts will be published online by March 1, 2014.

First edition of the ‘International Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of Medicine’, Paris June 20-22

Registration is now open for the first meeting of the International Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of Medicine (IASPM) on the website of the conference. The first meeting will be held at the Center Pantheon Sorbonne (12 place de la Sorbonne 75 005 Paris – room 1) from June 20 to June 22, 2013, in Paris.

IASPM aims to offer a biennial international three-day event for PhD students and early-career researchers in philosophy of medicine to meet, exchange ideas, acquire a general background in the discipline and present their work. The main theme of this first edition is “Unity and autonomy in the philosophy of medical science”. The list of speakers for this edition is the following:

Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (France) :

Maël Lemoine
Marie Darrason
Gladys Kostyrka
Hélène Richard

Institute for the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany):

Norbert Paul
Lara Keuck
Yazan Abu Ghazal

Department of Health Sciences, European School of Molecular Medicine (Italy):

Giovanni Boniolo
Pierre-Luc Germain
Marco Annoni

Center for the Humanities and Health, King’s College of London (United Kingdom)

Derek Bolton
Norman Poole
Silvia Camporesi

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (United States):

Peter Machamer
Kathryn Tabb
Lauren Ross

Speakers selected through the call for contributions:

Nicholas Binney (University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom)
Jennifer Bulcock (Rice University, Houston, United States of America)
Chris J. Blunt (London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom)
Armand Dirand (University of Besançon, Besançon, France)
Lydia Du Bois (University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States of America)
Barthelemy Durrive (ENS Lyon/Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France)
Hajimé Fujimori (IHPST, Paris, France)
Jonathan Fuller (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
Ashley Kennedy (University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States of America)
Johnatan Scholl (KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
Stéphanie Van Droogenbroeck (Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium)

You can preview the program of the conference here.

The conference will be closed by three thematic workshops on the following topics:

- “Health and disease concepts: is there still any relevance of their philosophical analysis?” organized by Elodie Giroux (Université Lyon 3) and Marion Le Bidan;

- “Knowledge and practice in medicine” organized by Alain Leplège (Université Paris 7) and Hidetaka Yakura (Université Paris 7);

- “Plurality of explanatory schemes in medicine” organized by Michel Morange (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris) and Smaïl Bouaziz (IHPST)

Click here to register. There are no registration fees for the conference, but places are limited, so hurry up!