19e Conférence internationale en éthique clinique et consultation
The Institute of Humanities in Medicine organizes the forthcoming International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation in Lausanne, CHUV, on 5-7 June 2025.
Call for Abstracts
Deadline 25 October 2024, 11.59 pm CEST
19th International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation (ICCEC)
Plurality, Power, and Patient Care: The Socio-Political Dimensions of Clinical Ethics
Theme 2025
Clinical ethics consultation, or healthcare ethics consultation (HEC), responds to moral uncertainty, plurality, and value conflicts in healthcare. In doing so, it transcends the borders of healthcare and touches on contentious issues of societal and political importance, such as conflicts, migration, gender identity, artificial intelligence, or climate change. Good clinical ethics must consider these broader socio-political issues, and clinical ethics professionals may, in turn, contribute an interesting view to these socio-political debates.
This conference will shed light on the socio-political dimensions of clinical ethics, structured in 5 topics that can be addressed across all healthcare ethics consultation activities (consultation, education, organizational & policy work, research etc.):
(1) HEC and conflict resolution
(2) HEC and social justice
(3) HEC and sustainability
(4) HEC and digital disruption
(5) HEC and its socio-political dimension in general
Authors
Abstracts can be submitted by any clinical ethicist, health care professional, student, or other individual engaged or interested in health care ethics.
Abstract categories and format
Abstracts can be submitted for individual oral presentations, poster presentations, or workshops for parallel sessions (90 min). All co-authors should have a relevant contribution to the work and agree with the abstract submission. There is no maximum number of co-authorships, but each person can only be presenting author for a maximum of 2 presentations (oral, poster and workshop presentations combined). Abstracts have to be submitted in English. References should be avoided. Abbreviations have to be explained.
Abstract assessment
Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by expert reviewers from the International Scientific Committee and the Swiss Advisory Board. Please make sure to exclude any identifiable information from your abstract title and text (which will be separated from names and affiliations). Each abstract will be evaluated by at least 2 reviewers independently. The evaluation criteria include: (1) scholarly quality and scientific rigor, (2) originality and innovative nature, (3) relevance to HEC, the theme and the topics of the ICCEC 2025, (4) practical impact on health care and HEC, (5) form of the abstract is well-structured, clearly written, and focused. The final decision will be made by the Local Organizing Committee.
Timeline
- Deadline for abstract submission: 25 October 2024, 11.59 pm CEST
- Notification of corresponding authors probably in December 2024
Abstract submission and all informations here:
Organization
The ICCEC 2025 is presided by Prof. Ralf J. Jox, director of the Institute of Humanities in Medicine CHUV-UNIL and head of Clinicl Ethics Unit of CHUV.
Local Organizing Committee : Brenda Bogaert (IHM), Kevin Dzi (IHM), Fleur Le Bourgeois (PED, IHM), Elena Martinez (IHM), Daniela Rietzenthaler (SPL, IHM), Rachel Rutz (SPL, IHM), Kristina Würth (IHM).
