Do ethics in the Rockies this July! The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and the Mansfield Center will sponsor a conference, Ethics in the Professions and Practice, July 21-25, 1996, University of Montana. Each participant will take part in a four-day seminar focused on a topic of special relevance to teaching, research, or practical or professional ethics including: The Morality of Journalistic Actions (Deni Elliott); Narratives, Case Studies, and Theories of Ethics (John Arras); Autonomy and Coercion in Public Health (Bruce Jennings); Collegiality (Vivian Weil); Developing and Re-Developing Professional Codes: What, How, and Why (Michael Davis); Euthanasia (Tom Beauchamp); Religion and the Professions (David Smith); Ethics in Engineering (Mike Pritchard); Teaching Professional Ethics: What Do We Know About What Works? (Muriel Bebeau); and Ethical Issues in Scientific Research (Karen Muskavitch). Each day a plenary lecture will take up a topic of practical or professional ethics cutting across disciplines. Contact: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, 410 North Park Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405. Ph. (812) 855-6450. Fx. (812) 855-3315. E-Mail: APPE@INDIANA.EDU.

11th International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy will be held at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, July 31-August 4, 1996. Contact: Nancy Slonneger, Executive Director, American Association for Philosophy Teaching, Transylvania University, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, Kentucky 40508.

European Bioethics Seminar: Health Care Issues in Pluralistic Societies, August 5-9, 1996, will be held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Organized by the International Program in Bioethics Education and Research and staffed by prominent bioethics scholars from several countries, the seminar will offer participants both a formal and practical understanding of contemporary bioethics issues. Special attention will be paid to European traditions in health care ethics. All lectures and plenary sessions will be in English. Contact: Mrs. J.C.M. Fete-de Haard, Catholic University of Nijmegen, 232 Dept. of Ethics, Philosophy, and History of Medicine, P. O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Ph. [31] (0)24-3615320. Fx. [31] (0)24-3540254.

The 10th Annual Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, Philosophy of the Health Sciences: From Disease Prevention to Health Promotion, will be held in Vienna, Austria, August 14-17, 1996. All sessions will be in English. Contact: Prof. dr. Henk ten Have, secretariat ESPMH, Dept. of Ethics, Philosophy, and History of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Catholic University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Fx. [31] (0) 24-3540254

CALL FOR PAPERS: Business Ethics Quarterly invites submissions for a special issue, "Business and Politics". Deadline: July 1, 1996. Contact: Professor Leonard Weber, editor for that issue, Ethics Institute, University of Detroit Mercy, 8200 West Outer Drive, Detroit, MI 48219.

International Society of Value Inquiry hopes to hold its annual meeting in Boston, August 1998, in conjunction with the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. Submit papers in any area of value inquiry, including ethics and aesthetics, value theory, and disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and metadisciplinary value inquiry. Deadline: September 1997. Contact: Professor John M. Abbarno, Secretary, International Society of Value Inquiry, Department of Philosophy, D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY 14201, USA. Ph. (716) 881-3200, x6540. Fx. (716) 881-7760.

The Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Minnesota, asks for papers on End-of-Life Care in Managed Health Care Organizations: State of the Art in Ethics and Quality of Care for a conference, November 1-2, 1996, designed to assist clinicians, policymakers, and health industry leaders improve end-of-life care in managed health care. Topics for papers include Ethical Analysis, Clinical Services, or Policymaking. One author of each accepted paper for plenary sessions will receive a $500 honorarium and up to $1000 to reimburse expenses; one author of each paper accepted for a breakout session will receive a $200 honorarium and remission of con-ference fees. Contact: Candace Holmbo, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Suite 110, 2221 University Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. E-Mail: holmb006@maroon.tc.umn.edu.

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Conflicts of Interest in Engineering, by Paula Wells, Hardy Jones, and Michael Davis
ISBN 0-8403-3944-5

Conflicts of Interest in Engineering, one of six titles in a Module Series in Applied Ethics published by CSEP through Kendall/Hunt, is now available from CSEP for $3.00, the cost of shipping and handling. The original cost was $7.75.

This monograph examines an ethical issue that arises for many professionals and business people. Conflicts of interest occur frequently in engineering, creating problems for engineers and their employers or clients. The engineering workplace offers a setting useful for clarifying the issue of conflict of interest, explaining what makes it morally compromising, and indicating appropriate responses that apply as well in other professions and in business. With three co-authors, this monograph provides the perspective of a practitioner and the perspectives of two philosophers. In addition to a thorough analysis of an actual episode, the Hydrolevel case, the monograph contains fourteen problems, the first four of which are discussed by the Board of Ethical Review of the National Society of Professional Engineers in official opinions and by the three authors. The remaining problems are left for analysis by the reader.

The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) was established in 1976 for the purpose of promoting education and the scholarship relating to ethical and policy issues of the professions. Perspectives on the Professions is one of the means the Center has of achieving that purpose

EDITOR: Michael Davis
MANAGING EDITOR: Rebecca Newton
EDITORIAL BOARD: David Beam, Ellen Fox, Robert F. Ladenson, Martin Malin, Ullica Segerstrale, Warren Schmaus
CSEP DIRECTOR: Vivian Weil

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