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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