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Call for Papers
"Health and Well-Being in a Divided World:
Ethical Challenges for Universities"
3rd International Conference on Teaching Applied and
Professional Ethics in Higher Education
Centre for Applied and Professional Ethics,
Kingston University
Kingston upon Thames (UK)
4-6 September 2007
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The conference theme
Securing global justice in the provision of health and
well-being for all, mental, physical, emotional and
spiritual, requires universities to teach and research in a
wide range of disciplines. It is also inescapably linked
with teaching ethics alongside these disciplines.
Universities face challenges from professions, from
governments and from the healthcare industry to satisfy
their own demands in both teaching and research. And the
plurality of different ethnicities, values and religious
faiths in the world presents other, conflicting demands upon
universities regarding what ethics is taught and how it is
taught. The diversity of learning communities presents both
opportunities and challenges to the teaching of ethics.
Meanwhile, universities aspire to serve as independent
arenas of learning, debate and dialogue, independent of
governments, of industry and the professions. How can
universities help secure global justice in health and
well-being for all whilst remaining independent arenas of
learning and debate? How can all these different pressures
be reconciled? To whom should universities listen in the
process?
Keynote speakers include:
Professor Hoosen Coovadia, international authority on
ethical issues of AIDS in South Africa and member of the
Muslim faith community, South Africa
Professor Thomas Pogge, Professorial Fellow at Centre for
Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National
University, Professor of Political Science, Columbia
University, USA
Rt Rev Dr Thomas Butler, Bishop of Southwark, Co-chair of
the UK National Inter-Faith network and regular broadcaster,
UK
Professor Brenda Gourley, Vice Chancellor of the Open
University UK,
Associate Professor Stan van Hooft, philosopher and writer
on virtue ethics and Socratic Dialogue in healthcare,
Australia
John Battle, MP, the UK Prime Ministers spokesperson on
faith communities
Call for papers
Proposals are invited from academics, practitioners, members
of charities, faith based organisations, campaigning groups
and non-government organisation for papers and for other
formats of dialogue or debate. These might include
facilitated discussions introduced by ten minute
introductions. Proposals to facilitate such round table
discussions should include:
- full text of the ten minute introduction,
- brief descriptions of the process of the event including
- the manner of opening discussion,
- questions to be posed,
- facilitation of discussion and closure.
Proposals are invited for other formats for exchanging ideas
in an academic context. Details of what is proposed should
be described.
Selected contributions will be published in a book:
Global Well-being and Higher Education.
Proposals (not more than 500 words) for papers are invited on:
- Changing contexts for ethics in higher education including:
- The changing context of ethics as globalisation,
new technologies and economic pressures affect the
culture and governance of higher education;
- The governance and politics of ethics by
international bodies, governments, professions and
communities and the impact of these on higher
education;
- The practice of ethics in the lives of
individuals, communities and professions in the
contexts of diversity and globalisation and the loss
of civic orientation and concern for others in what
has been called post-modern society;
- Ethics, faiths, beliefs and spiritualities and the
relationship between all of these and the concepts
of citizenship and community;
- The agenda of happiness in the promotion of
positive mental health and well-being amongst
individuals and communities.
- Global and professional ethics of health and well-being
including:
- national and global ethical issues associated with
well-being and health including mental and spiritual
well-being and the business and management of well
being and health care;
- inequities in well being and healthcare provision,
globally and nationally;
- inter-professional issues in well being and
healthcare provision and their ethical implications;
- mental health care and well being in the community,
professional ethics and community provision;
- Faith, philosophy and dialogue in health and well-being
including:
- ethics, values and faiths in well being and health
and issues arising for higher education;
- respect, mutual understanding and dialogue in
health and well-being, mental and spiritual;
- philosophical aspects of well being and healthcare
ethics, principles, justice, virtues and caring;
- theological and spiritual dimensions of healthcare
and well-being.
- Universities and the teaching of applied and professional
ethics including:
- the changing role of universities in providing
well being and healthcare education and the ethical
issues arising;
- pedagogical aspects of teaching ethics in
healthcare and well being;
- education through service to the community:
examples and accreditation;
- ethical aspects of the role of information and
communication technologies in healthcare and in
teaching healthcare ethics;
Proposal submission by: 5th April; Notification of
acceptance: 27th April. Papers should be submitted by email
to: [email protected]
Further information and registration details:
http://www.intercape.org.uk
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