[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: Health, Culture and the Human Body, 13-15 September 2012, Istanbul University

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Rainer Broemer <rainer_broemer at yahoo.com>


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The 2nd international and interdisciplinary conference on

Health, Culture and the Human Body
Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine,
perspectives from Turkey and Central Europe
13-15 September 2012
Istanbul, Turkey

Deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2012


Demographic change in a globalized world raises not only social and 
economic issues but also ethical problems within the medical system of 
aging societies. Medical care for elderly people cannot be 
conceptualized and organized without considering a cultural 
understanding of aging and the economic and social circumstances of a 
given society. In this regard this conference will focus on ethical, 
historical and epidemiological perspectives of aging in a global
world, including issues such as health care research and health-related 
knowledge, attitudes and practices of elderly people. Further subjects 
of the conference are the beginning of life and sexually transmitted 
diseases, which will also be discussed from an interdisciplinary 
perspective. This conference will focus on the selected cases from 
Turkey, Germany, and other countries which for the last 50 years have 
been closely connected by substantial migration processes, as they had 
been earlier through medical scientific exchanges and common clinical 
practice. After the well received first round held in Germany (Mainz) in 
2010, the aim of this second conference is to establish a discussion 
platform for different ethical considerations among historically 
connected countries, applying an interdisciplinary “medicine studies” 
approach to selected sample cases from Turkey, Germany and other 
countries with comparable relationships.

The chosen thematic areas are:

·         Aging, culture
and medicine (aging and culture, aging and perception of the body,
medical care
and geriatrics, geriatrics and ethics, hospice systems)
·         Sexually
Transmitted Diseases   (e.g. AIDS,
syphilis, gonorrhea; the social perception of venereal diseases and
medicine,
politics-ethics and the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases)
·         Beginning of,E-Mail:
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life and ethics (Assisted Reproductive Technologies, abortion,
religion-medicine and the beginning of life)
   ·       Migration and Health


Abstracts (max. 250 words) of proposed conference papers should be 
submitted by 29 February 2012, to the attention of

Hakan Ertin MD PhD
Department of History of Medicine and Ethics
Faculty of Medicine
Istanbul University

Phone: +90 532 321 71 77
Fax: +90 212 414 22 86
E-mail: <hakanertin at gmail.com>


Publication of selected papers is envisaged.

Venue:Istanbul University Doctorate Halls –Beyazıt,
Istanbul, Turkey

Organisation:
Hakan Ertin MD, PhD (Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Rainer Brömer PhD (Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Ilhan Ilkilic MD, PhD (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
Hajo Zeeb MD, PhD (BIPS – Institute for Epidemiology and Prevention
Research, Bremen, Germany)