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American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
10th Annual Meeting: Future Tense
Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, OH
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1
FUTURE TENSE
The theme for the 2008 Meeting, the tenth anniversary meeting, of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities is Future Tense. As we look back on the first ten years and ahead to the next ten years of ASBH, we invite you to think about the many meanings one might extrapolate from this phrase. What new issues will face bioethics and medical humanities? What recurring and unresolved issues will continue to demand our attention? How, for example, should notions of transhumanism influence public policy? How does science fiction provide models of and models for our current concerns over the future? How accurate have our predictions about the moral dilemmas surrounding new technology been and how can we do better? What moral assumptions have yet to be empirically examined? What is the future for narrative medicine? What is the future for graduate education in bioethics and medical humanities? How will clinical ethics consultation evaluation and core competencies evolve? What is the future for ASBH?
GUIDELINES
Submissions in any area of bioethics and humanities are accepted. Proposals that address provocative ideas and challenges from interdisciplinary perspectives will be given preference.
One Presentation Rule: Presenters are limited to one presentation at the meeting. Presenters in preconference workshops or in a presentation created by the program planning committee, such as the Late-Breaking News session, are excluded from this rule. Paper session moderators for the 15-minute Individual Presentations are not considered presenters, therefore serving as a Paper session moderator does not count as a presentation. Moderators for Panels and Workshops are designated by the Panel/Workshop and their names appear with the session in the program book, therefore they are considered presenters.
Submit your proposal in one topic area only. Do not revise your proposal for multiple topic areas and submit it in more than one category.
Proposals should be submitted in Empirical Research when the focus of your presentation will be the empirical study. If your proposal has an empirical component but the focus of your presentation is not the empirical component, please select another category.
Anonymous/Not Anonymous Submissions: Preconference Workshops and Panel Sessions are not anonymous proposals. Presenters’ names and other identifying information for Preconference Workshops and Panel Session proposals will be available to reviewers and may be included in the proposal’s abstract. The other proposals are anonymous. Anonymous proposals are: 90-minute Workshop Sessions; 15-minute Individual Presentations (Paper Sessions); Posters. Do not include presenters’ names or other identifying information in the abstracts for these proposals.
Roles. In your submission, you will designate a role for each person as Speaker, Organizer, or Moderator as appropriate to the Submission Type. See the Submission Type in the Call for Proposals for the direction on when these roles are optional or required.
All submissions are final. Accepted abstracts will be printed in the annual meeting program book as submitted. We will not be able to accept changes to an abstract after the submission deadline.
All speakers are responsible for their expenses, including meeting registration. Speakers are required to register for the meeting using the Meeting Registration Form from the meeting brochure. Submitting a proposal does not mean you are registered for the meeting.
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