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July 10th – 12th 2013
Göttingen (Germany)

Organized by
Silke Schicktanz & Mark Schweda (Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Göttingen) and Frank Adloff (Department of Sociology Erlangen-Nürnberg)


The aim of the international conference Planning Later Life – Bioethics and
Politics in Aging Societies is to critically reflect on the relevance of
modern medicine in shaping the lives and situations of aging and elderly
persons today. It discusses and contrasts the ethical, social and political
consequences of demographic change in the field of medicine and health care
as well as the implications of the rise of anti-aging medicine and
prevention, and recent trends in dementia research and care. The conference
is interdisciplinary, combining perspectives from ethics, sociology, cultural
anthropology and nursing sciences.
Among the confirmed keynote speakers are:

• Norman Daniels (Harvard),
• John Harris (Manchester),
• Otfried Höffe (Tübingen),
• François Höpflinger (Zürich),
• Sharon Kaufman (San Francisco),
• Stephen Katz (Petersborough),
• S. Jay Olshansky (Chicago),
• Dieter Sturma (Bonn),
• Nancy Jecker (Washington)
• Jason Powell (Preston).

Apart from the plenary sessions, there will be open parallel sections
discussing the changing images of old age between autonomy and dependency,
the evidence and benefits of anti-aging and prevention, problems of personal
identity and dementia as well as solidarity and social responsibility in
future healthcare policies. Contributions in the form of oral presentations
of 20 minutes are invited. Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words,
highlighting question, methods and results of your research, to
mark.schweda@medizin.uni-goettingen.de. Deadline is November 1st 2012. All
abstracts will undergo peer review.

The conference will take place within the framework of the BMBF-funded
research project Biomedical Life Plans for Aging. Values Between Individual
Ethical Reflection and Social Standardization
(http://www.biomedizinische-lebensplanung.uni-goettingen.de)

The Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law (of KU Leuven) is organising an intensive course on Ethics of Reproductive Technologies. The objective of this course is to focus at some of the most challenging ethical issues in reproductive medicine, as well on the level of fundamental notions as applied clinical questions.

During the course experts will give presentations on various topics in the domain of reproductive medicine. There will be time for intensive discussions. The language of instruction will be English.

The course is of interest to participants from diverse professional backgrounds, such as medicine, philosophy and theology, health care administration, and PhD students undertaking courses of study in these areas. The intensive course Ethics of Reproductive Technologies is part of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics programme organised by a consortium of three European universities, namely the KU Leuven (Belgium), Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and the Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy). Because of this combination, participants of the intensive course Ethics of Reproductive Technologies, will join Master students from all over the world.

The course fee is € 650 if you register and pay as a participant before September 15th 2012, € 750 for registration and payment from September 15th 2012 onwards.

This fee includes tuition and course materials, as well as refreshments, three lunches and a dinner. Detailed information on registration and payment can be found at our website www.masterbioethics.org under Intensive Courses.