Subject: The meeting will focus upon questions of health and general well-being in those who are aging.
Purpose: We will examine ethical issues consequent to an aging population and how these relate to well-being and health.
Final aim: To articulate a framework for ethical recommendations relevant to health care (post hoc consensus guidelines for health and social work professionals).
Speakers: Moral philosophers, social scientists and ICU physicians.
Invited presentations: 22 speakers. Each talk will be 30 minutes long. Invited speakers will also be welcomed to participate in 90 minutes round tables of 3-4 participants on the same day. (We will accommodate our speakers who may prefer to participate in some other manner or have a longer time to talk.) By preference, speakers can be clustered in the same session, so please do not hesitate to offer suggestions. Arrangements are currently being finalized.
Free papers: 12-16 speakers. Short presentation of the pre-selected free papers (10-15 min.) which will also be published in the book of proceedings). The remaining peer reviewed and accepted abstracts will be presented as posters.
Workshops: Short workshops (60-90 min) with practical aims for health personnel will be held in the periods between main sessions. Our aim is to establish a framework for ethical recommendations relevant to health care in an aging world (post hock consensus guidelines for the health and social work professionals).
Public: The invited public will be international with some German predominance. We expect visitors, physicians and medical personnel from European nations and beyond.
Publication: Proceedings will be published in a volume: Medical Ethics in an Ageing World.
Simultaneous translation: Will be available for all sessions (English, German).
Congress Language : German, English
Media: Local, national and international media will be invited to selected sessions.
Invited Speakers
George Agich (US),
Philosophy and Senior Research Fellow, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
Michael Schwartz (US)
Clinical Professor of psychiatry, University of Hawaii; Founding Editor,
"Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, (PEHM)"
Roger Scruton, (US),
Philosopher, Resident Scholar, The American Enterprise Institute, 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, DC
Tristram H. Engelhardt (US)
Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Professor of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, Texas; Editor-in-Chief, "Philosophy and Medicine."
Peter Railton (US)
Perrin Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2215 Angell Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Phillipe Juvin (F),
Professor of Anesthesiology, Chef of the ICU, Hospital Beaujon, Clichy, Paris
Diana Johnstone (B),
political scientist
Jean Brickmont (B),
Professor of physics, Brussels, Belgian Academician, physicist and philosopher of science
Soeren Holm (UK),
Professor of Medical Ethics, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, The University of Manchester, Manchester, Editor of the "Journal of Medical Ethics"
John Harris (UK)
Professor of Philosophy, Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics, Editor of the "Journal of Medical Ethics"
Sir Patrick Bateson (UK)
Professors of Biology, Formerly The Provost’s Lodge, King’s College, Cambridge.
Peter Schmucker (GER)
Professor, Direktor der Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin am Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein - Campus Kiel -
Mark Schweda (GER)
M.A., Philosoph, Abteilung Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
Peter Suter (CH)
Professor em. of Intensive Care Medicine, President of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
Claudia Wiesemann (GER)
Professor in der Abteilung Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
Präsidentin der Gesellschaft für Ethik in der Medizin e.V
Andreas Zieger (GER)
Professor in der Abteilung für Schwerst-Schädel-Hirn-Geschädigte, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Oldenburg
