The conference venue is Dedeman Hotel - Gayrettepe.

The four central topics are:

-          Bioethics and Humanities

-          The European Biomedicine Convention: a Platform of Dialogue

-          Human Rights in Bioethics: Universalism and Particularism

-          Bioethics in Conflicting Issues

 The program of the conference includes plenary sessions as well as parallel sessions. Persons wishing to present papers at the conference are invited to submit an abstract addressing the ethical dimensions of the conference topics (500 words maximum) before March 1, 2011.

We are pleased to invite you to send in your abstracts and to attend this conference. Please send abstracts to:

Yesmin Isil ULMAN, Assoc. Professor, The Turkish Bioethics Association, Acibadem University School of Medicine, Department of Medical History and Ethics, Istanbul-TURKEY

Tel: +90 542 541 8755, email: yesimul@yahoo.com, Fax: +90 216 598 8485