International Conference on End of Life: Law, Ethics, Policy and Practice - ABSTRACT DEADLINE

From August 13-15  2014, the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia will be hosting the International Conference on End of Life: Law, Ethics, Policy and Practice.  The call for abstracts closes Wednesday, April 30.

ICEL 2014 will provide a global forum at which health law scholars, bioethicists, legal and health practitioners, and health law and bioethics institutions can meet to discuss and present on law, ethics, policy and practice relating to the end of life. Abstracts on the conference’s four sub-themes are particularly welcome:

• Withholding and withdrawal of potentially life-sustaining treatment (e.g. advance care planning, futile treatment)


• Palliative care and terminal sedation


• Euthanasia and assisted suicide


• Determination of death and organ and tissue donation

Here are some highlights:

• Debate on ethics of euthanasia and assisted suicide -- Professor Peter Singer, Princeton University & Assistant Professor Charles Camosy, Fordham University


• How we die -- Dr Peter Saul, John Hunter Hospital & Professor Michael Ashby, Royal Hobart Hospital and Southern Tasmania Health Organisation (THO)


• Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment -- Professor Jocelyn Downie, Dalhousie University


• Panel sessions: Comparative flash points in end of life law, ethics and policy


• Terminal sedation -- Professor Shelia McLean, Glasgow University


• Determination of death -- Dr Dale Gardiner, Nottingham University Hospitals


• Assisted death practice: Research from around the world