‘The Patient’, a research and publications project, is inviting papers for presentation during the 2nd Global Conference that will be held at Prague, Czech Republic from 16 –18 May, 2012. This global conference serves as a platform to connect people coming from different areas to explore challenging routes of intellectual and academic exploration. The conference also offers a chance to explore and review the present-day health care systems from the perspective of a patient.
Papers are invited from a wide range of perspectives—humanist, medical, artistic—addressing one or more of the following topics:
- the patient in literary contexts
- the patient in film
- the patient in self-help books and pathographies
- the dying patient
- the identity of the patient
- from person to patient
- the patient and communication
- the ill and the well
- the chronic patient
- the caregiver
- the quality medical encounter from the perspective of the patient
- the quality medical encounter from the perspective of the physician
- biomedical ethics
- the patient in the history of medicine
- the patient in medical anthropology and sociology
- patient empowerment
Paperswill be considered on any related theme.
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. The 300 word abstracts should be submitted by the deadline. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 9th March 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs.
A Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication.
All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume.
Last date for submitting the abstracts is November 4, 2011.
For more information and details, you can visit this link.
