Health, Culture and the Human Body

Reminder and final call for abstracts
An international and interdisciplinary conference on
Health, Culture and the Human Body
Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from Central
Europe and Turkey
Mainz, Germany, 17-19 September 2010

New developments in medicine, preventive and therapeutic interventions are
raising novel ethical questions in societies undergoing fast demographic
change at home while participating in global interactions through travel
and migration. Diverse value-cultures may affect the responses to
well-established themes in medicine, giving rise to complex ethical
debates and different legal regulations.

This conference will focus on selected cases from Turkey, Germany, and
other countries closely connected by substantial migration processes, and
previously by medical sciences and clinical practice. These interactions
will be analysed jointly from historical, epidemiological, and ethical
perspectives, paving the way for the implementation of an
interdisciplinary “medicine studies” approach in the field of
intercultural and migration medicine.
(See also: www.springer.com/philosophy/philosophy+of+sciences/journal/12376)

The chosen thematic areas are:
 infectious diseases (e.g., plague, leprosy, cholera, tuberculosis,
HIV/AIDS)
 the end of life (e.g., patient autonomy vs. family autonomy, advance
directives, active and passive euthanasia, palliative care)
 dealing with the human body (e.g., anatomical research, organ donation,
biomaterial in international studies)
 migration and medicine

A significant number of high-quality abstracts has already been received,
but there are a few slots left. Abstracts (max. 250 words) of proposed
conference papers need to be submitted by 31 January 2010,
to the attention of Ilhan Ilkilic MD PhD, E-Mail: ilkilic@uni-mainz.de
(Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz Medical Centre, Germany,
Phone +49-(0)-6131-3937343, Fax +49-(0)-6131-3936682)
Publication of selected papers is envisaged.

Venue: Mainz Academy of Letters and Sciences, Mainz, Germany
Organising institutions:
 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Medical Centre (Germany)
 University of Bremen, Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and
Social Medicine (BIPS)
 Istanbul University (Turkey)
Invited speaker (preliminary list in alphabetical order):
Seval Akgün (Ankara/TR); Şahin Aksoy (Urfa/TR); Monika Bobbert
(Heidelberg/D); Theda Borde (Berlin/D); Rainer Brömer (Mainz/D;
Istanbul/TR); Hakan Ertin (Istanbul/TR); Hanzade Doğan (Istanbul/TR);
Franz Dumont (Mainz/D); Altan Heper (Stuttgart/D); Ilhan Ilkilic
(Mainz/D); İrfan İnce (Sakarya/TR); Alexander Krämer (Bielefeld/D); Werner
Kümmel (Mainz/D); Hans-Uwe Lammel (Rostock/D); Recep Öztürk (Istanbul/TR);
Norbert W. Paul (Mainz/D); Oliver Razum (Bielefeld/D); Nil Sarı
(Istanbul/TR); Hans-Martin Sass (Washington/USA; Bochum/D); Jacob Spallek
(Mainz; Bremen/D); Yener Ünver (Istanbul/TR); Nükhet Varlık
(Harrisonburg/USA); Nuran Yıldırım (Istanbul/TR); Hajo Zeeb (Mainz;
Bremen/D)

Internet: www.healthandculture2010.de

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