EACME Annual Conference (September 19-21, 2013 in Bochum, Germany)
“Personalised medicine” – medicine for the person? Ethical challenges for medical research and practice
The Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) will organise the EACME annual conference in 2013. The conference will be organised in cooperation with the Centre for Medical Ethics Bochum (ZME e.V.) and supported by the Research Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum.
The topic of the EACME Conference 2013, “Personalised medicine” – medicine for the person? Ethical challenges for medical research and practice, is offering a critical and interdisciplinary approach to so-called “personalised medicine” from an ethical, medical, socio-cultural, legal, and economic perspective. The scientific programme covers a broad spectrum of topics including:
• Patient as a person in medicine
• Research in “peronalised medicine”
• Clincial practice
• Health-care systems
You are kindly invited toparticipate in this interdisciplinary and international debate. For more information, see the flyer attached or visit the conference’s website under www.eacme2013.org.