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• The Third Annual International Bioethics Retreat. Sept. 12-16, 2000. Pembroke College in Cambridge, England. Sponsored by Loyola University of Chicago, The Joint Medical Program and the Human Rights Center at the University of California Berkeley, and Cambridge University Press. For more information, contact: Doris Thomasma, Retreat Coordinator, Loyola University of Chicago, Medical Humanities Program, 2160 S. First Ave., Maywood, IL 60153. Telephone: (708) 327-9200. Fax: (708) 327-9202. E-mail: [email protected].
• Fifth World Congress of Bioethics, Sept. 21-24, 2000. Imperial College, London. Sponsored by the International Association of Bioethics, the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, and the Millennium Festival of Medicine. Major topics include: bioethics, law and public policy; the ethics of genetic advance; feminism and gender equality; end-of-life issues; ethical challenges in surgery; humanities in medicine; transplantation and organ sales; and psychiatric ethics. The Congress language will be English. For more information, visit the Web site: http:// www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/ethics/fifthcon.htm. E-mail: [email protected].
• International Collaboration in Nursing: The Influence of Ethics and Policy on Health and the Quality of Life, Oct. 1-4, 2000. Tysons Corner, VA. The Fourth Nursing Academic International Congress. Sponsored by the College of Nursing and Health Science at George Mason University. For more information, contact Beverly T. Boyd, congress co-chair. E-mail: BBOYD@wpgate. gmu edu. Web site: http://www.gmu.edu/ departments/nursing/congress.
• Extreme Ethics: Unusually Difficult Challenges in Epidemiology and Human Subjects Research, Oct. 12-14, 2000. Miami. Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The course will feature a review and discussion of issues for which standard models of valid consent and scientific practice may be inadequate and for which too little attention has been devoted in research and literature. For more information, contact: University of Miami Ethics Programs. Telephone: (305) 243-5723. E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: http://www.miami. edu/ethics.
• Ethics in Research: An Intensive Training Workshop Focusing on Behavioral Health Services, Oct. 16-19, 2000. Tampa, FL. Sponsored by the University of South Florida and the National Institutes of Health. This intensive course is designed to better equip researchers to conduct ethically responsible behavioral health research. Issues to be addressed include: informed consent, decisional capacity and competency, diversity and multicultural perspective, emotional health of research participants, confidentiality and privacy, data ownership, and coercion. For more information, contact: Kelly M. Lyon, Coordinator, Educa-tion and Training Programs, Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, Bldg. MHC-2628, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa, FL 33612. Telephone: (813) 974-7623. Fax: (813) 974-9327. Web site: http://www.fmhi. usf.edu/mhlp/ethics/ethics.html. E-mail: Lyon@ fmhi.usf.edu.
• Third Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Oct. 26-29, 2000. Salt Lake City. More information on the conference will be posted as it becomes available on the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Web site. Web site: http://www.asbh.org. E-mail: [email protected].
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