International Conference on End of Life: Law, Ethics, Policy and Practice (August 2014)

Received from Lindy Wilmott, Director, Health Law Research Centre and Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology

The Queensland University of Technology Health Law Research Centre, Dalhousie Health Law Institute and Tsinghua Health Law Research Centre are pleased to invite you to the International Conference on End of Life: Law, Ethics, Policy and Practice 2014 (ICEL 2014). This interdisciplinary conference will be hosted by the Queensland University of Technology Health Law Research Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia from 13-15 August 2014.

More information about ICEL 2014 is available here: http://icelconference2014.com/.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

We are delighted to announce the following confirmed plenary speakers: ·

• Professor Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University and Laureate Professor, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne (in a debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide)
• Professor Sheila McLean, Emeritus Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine, Glasgow University (on terminal sedation)
• Professor Jocelyn Downie, Professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine, Dalhousie Health Law Institute, Dalhousie University (on withholding and withdrawal of potentially life-sustaining treatment)
• Assistant Professor Charles Camosy, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, Fordham University (in a debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide)

• Dr Peter Saul, Senior Intensive Care Specialist, John Hunter Hospital (on how we are dying)

Call for abstracts

The call for abstracts to present at ICEL 2014 is now open. This is an interdisciplinary conference and abstracts are encouraged from the disciplines of law, medicine, health, bioethics and other fields relevant to end of life decision-making and care. Abstracts on the conference’s four sub-themes are particularly welcome: 1. Withholding and withdrawal of potentially life-sustaining treatment (e.g. advance care planning, futile treatment) 2. Palliative care and terminal sedation 3. Euthanasia and assisted suicide 4. Determination of death and organ and tissue donation.

More information about submitting an abstract is available here. To subscribe to the ICEL 2014 newsletter and receive conference updates, please visit the conference website.

For general enquiries about ICEL 2014, please contact QUT Events at icelconference2014@qut.edu.au or +61 7 3138 9358.