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Vol. 13, No. 2, February 1994
"Announcements"
CONFERENCES: The 1994 Bioethics Conference in Hawaii, Health Care, Technology, & Money: Choices or Dilemmas? will be held at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, February 17-18. Contact: Georgene Jansen, St. Francis Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Room 470, 2230 Liliha Street, Honolulu, HI 96817 (ph. 808-547-6497 or fx. 808-526-2027).

The Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science and a Changing World, will be held at the San Francisco Hilton, February 18-23. Sessions will include: "Ethics in the Science Curriculum" and "Coping with Crisis: Sexual harassment". Contact: AAAS Annual Meeting, P.O. Box 630285, Baltimore, MD 21263 (fx. 202-289-4021).

The Fifth Annual National Conference on Ethics in America, From Dispute to Dialogue: Communication and Cooperation within the World of Ethics, will be held in Long Beach, California, March 9-11. Submit proposals. Contact: Delona Davis, Conference Coordinator, University Extension Services, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 908408002 (ph. 310-985-8446).

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and the Society of Critical Care Medicine will again sponsor HealthCare Ethics Forum, a yearly 2-day interdisciplinary forum on "the most burning issues, current wisdom, knowledge, and experience in health care ethics", March 29-30, Washington, DC. Contact: AACN Critical Care, 101 Columbia, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 (ph. 800-899-2226 or fx. 714-362-2020).

Fourth Annual Conference of Healthcare Ethics and Ethics Committees, Designs on Life: Choice, Control, and Responsibility in Genetic Manipulation will be held at the Sheraton Palace Hotel, San Francisco, April 15-17. Submit proposals. Contact: William A. Atchley, MD, International Bioethics Institute, 1721 Mar West, Tiburon, CA 94920-1932 (ph. 415-435-4900 or fx. 415-435-2635).

The First World Congress on Medicine and Philosophy: Sciences, Technologies, and Values will be held in Paris, France, May 30-June 4. Contact: Professor Henk ten Have, Secretariat ESPMH, Department of Ethics, Philosophy, and History of Medicine, Catholic University, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, the Netherlands (fx. 31-80-540254).

The second European Bioethics Seminar, Health Care Issues in Pluralistic Societies, will be held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 8-12. Special attention will be paid to European traditions in health care ethics. All lectures and plenary sessions will be in English. Contact: Ms. I.G. van der Heide, MA, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Department of Ethics, Philosophy, and History of Medicine (M244), P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (ph. 3180-616320 of fx. 31-80-540254).

WORKSHOPS: A workshop, Student Outcomes and Student Assessment: Do They Make a Difference in a College Curriculum?, will be held at Alverno College, April 14, Alverno Institute, 3401 South 39 Street, P.O. Box 343922, Milwaukee, WI 53234-3922 (ph. 414-382-6087).

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics will offer: Advanced Bioethics Course V, Theories and Methods in Bioethics: Principlism and Its Critics, March 59; Intensive Bioethics Course XX, June 5-11; and Intensive Bioethics Course for DENTISTS, June 19-25. Contact: Moheba Hanif, Course Coordinator, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057.

The Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, will hold another of its week-long interdisciplinary seminars, Ethics and the Professions: Moral Theories and Contemporary Problems, June 4-11. $1000 stipend plus accommodations. Contact: Stephen Kalish, College of Law, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0902 (ph. 402-472-1248).

PUBLICATIONS: Ethics Across the Curriculum: The Marquette Experience, edited by Robert B. Ashmore and William C. Starr, 267 pages (14 chapters) reports the results of a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. For your copy (only $6), write: Center for Ethics Studies, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233.

The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology was established in 1976 for the purpose of promoting education and scholarship relating to ethical and policy issues of the professions.

EDITOR: Michael Davis
STAFF: Rebecca Newton
EDITORIAL BOARD: Thomas Calero, Martin Malin, Ullica Segerstrale, Vivian Weil

Opinions expressed in Perspectives on the Professions are those of the authors, and not necesarily those of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions or the Illinois Institute of Technology. Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616-3793, Phone: 312-567-3017, Fax: 312-567-3016

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