This is the final call for papers for the FAB2004 Congress in Sydney.
All participants are encouraged to check the 7th World Congress of
Bioethics Website www.bioethicsworldcongress.com for information about
registration, accommodation and visa requirements (all visitors except
New Zealand citizens will require visas to enter Australia).
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
FAB 2004 Congress
Feminists Explore Public Health, Indigenous Health, and the Body
Sydney, Australia
7-9 November 2004
You are cordially invited to submit a paper proposal (abstract only)
for the 2004 Congress of the International Network on Feminist
Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), to be held in conjunction with the
International Association of Bioethics (IAB) 2004 Congress in Sydney,
Australia. Papers on any topic in feminist bioethics are welcome. The
plenary sessions will be devoted to the sub-themes of Public Health,
Indigenous Health and the Body.
Abstracts should be 350-400 words, and be accompanied by a descriptive
title for the paper proposed. Individual papers accepted for
presentation will be allotted a maximum of 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes
for questions. Please provide enough detail of your methods and
argument for reviewers to be able to assess your proposal from the
abstract. In addition, you should consult the subthemes outlined below
and nominate one to which your paper is most closely related, or
indicate that your paper is nonthematic. If you are making a paper
proposal as part of a group/panel, please include the format indicated
below, keeping in mind that each session will be allotted a total of
1.5 hours. Submission of an abstract is no guarantee that a paper will
be accepted.
To submit, please send your paper proposal (following the sample below)
to both:
Rachel Ankeny ([log in to unmask]) and Wendy Rogers
([log in to unmask]) in the text of an email message. If you
would like to volunteer to be a commentator for one of the plenary
papers, please also e-mail [log in to unmask]
[log in to unmask] If e-mailing is not possible, you may
send your paper proposal (in the format below, on paper and on diskette
in a standard word processing program) by snail mail to:
Wendy Rogers
Associate Professor Medical Ethics & Health Law
Department of Medical Education
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100,
Adelaide, South Australia 5001
AUSTRALIA
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF SUBMISSIONS: 20 February 2004
The program committee will notify you no later than 19 March 2004
whether your paper proposal has been accepted, in the hope that this
will allow you sufficient time to secure travel funding from your home
institution. Abstracts submitted for this late deadline will not be
eligible for FAB Grants funding.
FORMAT FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPER PROPOSALS:
Individual paper proposals should include the following information:
Name (surname, first):
Position/Institutional Affiliation:
Full Mailing Address (as you wish it to appear in conference materials):
E-mail Address:
Paper Title:
Abstract (not to exceed 350-400 words):
Proposed Subtheme (pick one):
(1) Public Health
(2) Indigenous Health
(3) Refiguring the Body
(4) Other (nonthematic)
FORMAT FOR GROUP/PANEL PROPOSALS:
If proposing as part of a group/panel, the panel coordinator should
submit all of the following information as one email message:
Name (surname, first) of panel coordinator:
Position/Institutional Affiliation:
Full Mailing Address (as you wish it to appear in conference materials):
E-mail Address:
Panel Title:
Abstract for the panel (not to exceed 350-400 words):
Proposed Subtheme (pick one):
(1) Public Health
(2) Indigenous Health
(3) Refiguring the Body
(4) Other (nonthematic)
Full details for each participant/paper/commentary proposed for the
panel:
Paper 1: Name (surname, first):
Position/Institutional Affiliation:
Full Mailing Address (as you wish it to appear in conference materials):
E-mail Address:
Paper Title:
Abstract for Paper 1 (not to exceed 350-400 words):
Paper 2: Name (surname, first):
Position/Institutional Affiliation:
Full Mailing Address (as you wish it to appear in conference materials):
E-mail Address:
Paper Title:
Abstract for Paper 2 (not to exceed 350-400 words):
(etc.)
OUTLINE OF SUBTHEMES
FAB 2004 Congress
Feminists Explore Public Health, Indigenous Health, and the Body
Sydney, Australia
7-9 November 2004
Theme 1: Public Health
The subtheme Public Health seeks to foster dialogue on the relationship
between public health, women’s health, and feminist ethics. Recent
interest in public health ethics has lead to renewed scrutiny of the
ethical foundations of public health. Current writings have explored
the links between public health and rights, communitarianism, and
virtue ethics. All of these approaches have been subject to feminist
critique in the past with regard to clinical ethics. This conference
provides an opportunity for feminists to examine how these theories
address the ethical challenges of public health. Public health is
important to women, not least because of the protection that strong
public health offers to the least well-off in society. Papers presented
under this subtheme will reflect feminists’ ongoing dialogue in meeting
the challenges of avoiding paternalism and protecting rights whilst
also offering strong public health services to communities.
Specific Topics/ Areas of Concern Suggested:
Justice and women’s health
• poverty, health, and ethics
• egalitarianism and rights
• gender and distributive justice
Autonomy and coercion in public health
• vaccination and the right to choose
• life-style modifications versus medical solutions
• the right to be unhealthy
• ethical analysis of structural determinants of health
Theoretical approaches to public health ethics
• ideology in public health
• utilitarianism, feminism and public health
• communitarianism and feminist analysis
Theme 2: Indigenous Health
The subtheme Indigenous Health seeks to encourage dialogue between
feminist bioethics, indigenous women and indigenous health. Within the
broad arc of indigenous health, this theme is particularly interested
in indigenous feminists’ contributions to debates about bioethics and
indigenous health as well as other feminist contributions to debates
about the ethical demands of indigenous health and the appropriate
means of articulating what “indigenous health issues” are. There is a
gap in the feminist bioethical literature on the specific challenges to
bioethics posed by consideration of disadvantages faced by indigenous
peoples, whether understood in terms of dispossession and colonial
oppression; relative poverty and reduced access to quality health care;
continued exploitation of indigenous people in health and scientific
research (e.g., drug testing and the Human Genome Project); “epistemic
imperialism” and ignorance about indigenous knowledges concerning
health, well-being and social integration. This theme seeks to
contribute to filling that gap and is particularly interested in
contributions from indigenous participants. Papers presented in this
theme reflect feminist concern to understand significant cultural
differences and to challenge oppression and disadvantage.
Specific Topics/ Areas of Concern Suggested:
Indigenous knowledges and medical dominance
• the health and community engagement
• Western medicine and indigenous health
• feminist epistemology, standpoint and indigenous experience
• cultural ownership and control over tissues, body parts and cadavers
Bioethics and cultural respect
• indigenous women’s responses to bioethics
• women’s oppression and respect for cultural difference
• claims of collective interests in indigenous health service provision
• non-indigenous appropriation of indigenous culture, concepts and
values
Indigenous women’s experience and feminist bioethics
• research ethics and health research in/on indigenous communities
• distributive justice and remote communities
• access to health care facilities appropriate to indigenous women’s
health needs
Theme 3: Refiguring the Body (crossover day with IAB)
The subtheme Refiguring the Body arises from taking the body as a
source of understanding and as a site for ethical engagement in
bioethics. This perspective offers an opportunity for dialogue and
questioning of a dominant empirical stance in medicine, which treats
bodies as objects of knowledge. Australian feminists are influential in
articulating philosophies of the body and have emphasized the ethical
significance of embodiment. Sydney therefore is a good setting to
continue this discussion. Papers will reflect diverse theoretical
backgrounds and topics surrounding bodies as subjects of knowledge and
ethical engagement, as normatively valued, or as socially embedded.
Sessions will build on the overarching Congress ThemeDeep
Listening—attending to what embodiment and bodily experience “say”—and
how bodies shape us as individual and social knowers and listeners.
(Papers for this crossover day will be considered by a joint IAB-FAB
program committee; therefore please submit your paper proposal ONCE
only to FAB or to IAB.)
Specific Topics/Areas of Concern Suggested:
Bioethical discourse on the body
• bodily differences and medical norms
• (dis)ability
• body modification
• uses and abuses of the body
• gendered bodies in medicine
Theoretical approaches to the body and embodiment
• phenomenological embodiment
• poststructural/ postmodern bodies
• analytical feminist approaches to moral psychology and epistemology
• non-Western philosophies of the body
Embodiment and ethical understanding
• listening to the individual body and acknowledging ‘private’
experience
• effects of the body on agency
• embodiment and the social
• spatiality and the possibility of ethical engagement
Paper proposals on nonthematic topics also are welcome. The program
committee may choose to include a paper in a nonthematic session, or
within a thematic one, in order to accommodate as many papers of high
quality as possible. The program committee also may request that panel
proposals be presented as individual papers, if time limitations
require. All presenters will be notified of these requested changes
when papers are accepted.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 20 February 2004
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