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Call for Papers "Setting an Ethical Agenda for Health Promotion" 2007 Conference on the Ethics of Health Promotion Institute for Law, Ethics and Society, and Department of Public Health, Ghent University Department of Public Health, Free University of Brussels Flemish Institute for Health Promotion (VIG) Ghent (Belgium) 18-20 September 2007 __________________________________________________ The promotion of health, both as a methodology and as a policy, has always been partly an ethical project. The past few decades the policy makers attention has not only been attracted by morbidity and mortality data, but just as much by health inequalities. Therefore, reducing health disparities and assuring people the right to the highest attainable standard of health is nowadays considered as an absolute priority by local, national and supranational institutions. Despite the moral motivations the domain of health promotion practice is littered with ethical pitfalls. For instance, the structure of health promotion strategies is a possible threat to the autonomy of individuals. Furthermore, several health interventions can only succeed by means of coercion and it isnt very clear whether or how the classical biomedical standard of informed consent could be applied in this particular context. Another domain where ethical analysis is required has to do with the numerous adverse and perverse side effects health promotion interventions can generate, viz. victim blaming, stigmatization, medicalization etcetera. This conference attempts to bring together scholars from both the fields of ethics and health promotion in order to identify and to examine the ethical issues that are at stake within the context of health promotion. The organising committee of the conference invites papers for oral and poster presentation on the following topics: - the moral necessity of tackling health inequalities - the use of coercion in public health interventions - the role of health literacy in avoiding paternalism in health promotion - empowerment versus repression in health promotion - health promotion as enemy or ally of individual autonomy - health promotion and imposing conceptions of the good life - health promotion and paternalism - the role of health promotion with regard to medicalization and healthism - health promotion and individual responsibility - the use of marketing strategies in health campaigns - the applicability of the achievements of biomedical ethics within the context of health promotion - individual interests versus the common good - any other topic that deals with the ethical aspects of health promotion Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be emailed as a Word-document to Hans Donckers. Deadline for submission is March 1, 2007. Keynote speakers: Norman Daniels Harvard School of Public Health, USA David V McQueen Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, CDC, USA Nancy Kass Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA Angus Dawson Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University, UK Marcel Verweij Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, NL Maurice Mittelmark Research Centre for Health Promotion, University of Bergen, NO Ronald Bayer Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA Contact: Dr. Hans Donckers Institute of Law, Ethics and Society Ghent University Universiteitstraat 4 B-9000 Ghent Belgium Tel: +32 (0)9 264 97 13 Fax: +32 (0)9 264 69 83 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.healthpromotionethics.eu __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
