Call for Papers
The Center for Thomistic Studies invites papers for The Ethics of Organ Transplantation, an interdisciplinary conference on medical and philosophical issues surrounding organ transplantation.
Papers are invited from philosophers, theologians, medical and nursing practitioners, lawyers, experts in counseling, psychology and the social sciences, and all other areas of study which relate to this important medical area.
Suggested themes for presentations include the following:
- dead donor rule
- sale of organs
- transplants from death row inmates
- transplants from Chinese political prisoners
- distribution of organs
- opt out donor rules
- persistent vegetative state
- higher brain definitions of death
- personhood theory
- sanctity or quality of human life
- xenotransplantation
- psychological aspects of transplantation
- psychological aspects of xenotransplantation
- doctors inducing death for organs
- the current state of transplant medicine
- infant heart transplants following circulatory death
- brain and head transplants
- face transplants
- genital transplants
- use of organs from savior siblings
- motivation for living donors (for relatives or strangers)
- conscientious objections to participation in certain transplant protocols
- ethical issues in research in transplantation medicine
- transplantation involving stem cells
- transplantation involving fetal organs
- transplant tourism
- transplants from patients who die as a result of physician-assisted death
- transplants for "bad guys" such as criminals
Papers should in general be suitable for a cross-disciplinary audience, though the presentation of some more specialist academic papers is also encouraged. For the purposes of oral presentation, papers should not exceed about 20 minutes of reading (about 2000 to 3000 words). The Center aims to make the full contents of the Conference available on CD, with the consent of the author, and without prejudice to author's copyright. It is also hoped to produce a paperback selection of the papers which have most interdisciplinary importance, again without prejudice.
A title and abstract, from 100 – 250 words, should be submitted by e-mail to jensensj@stthom.edu or to the following address:
Steven J. Jensen
Center for Thomistic Studies
University of St Thomas
3800 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, Texas, 77006 U.S.A.
Papers will be accepted as they are received, preference given to earlier submissions, with a final deadline of January 15, 2009. |
