COMET 2007
Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference: Communication, Medicine & Ethics
University of Lugano (Swiitzerland)
28 - 30 June 2007
The Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) evolved in 2003 at Cardiff (UK) to bring together communication researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, ranging from healthcare specialities to the human and social sciences. Following the overwhelming success of the first conference (attended by more than 200 participants from 20 countries), which was hosted by the Health Communication Research Centre at Cardiff University, COMET has now established itself as an annual interdisciplinary, international event. Grounded in a problem-oriented approach, COMET places special emphasis on the dissemination of high quality research in discourse/communication and practical ethics which is directly relevant to healthcare practitioners. COMET is now closely linked with the new journal Communication & Medicine (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin), with a view to bringing seminal research to a wider readership.
2007 Conference Overview
The conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds involving various medical specialities and the human and social sciences. A special emphasis will be on the dissemination of ongoing research in discourse/communication studies and practical ethics which engages directly with medical practitioners.
Keynote Speakers will include:
- Professor Jenny Kitzinger Cardiff University (UK)
- Professor Wolf Langewitz, University Hospital Basle (Switzerland)
- Professor Peter Twohig, Saint Mary’s University (Canada)
Conference Organising Committee
Peter J. Schulz, Sara Rubinelli, Benedetta Waldburger,
International Advisory Committee
Srikant Sarangi, Christopher N. Candlin, Claire Penn
Please visit www.comet.unisi.ch for further details regarding submission of proposals, registration, programme of events etc. or contact us using the details at the bottom of the page.
Call for proposals (COMET 2007)
Proposals (individual papers, posters, workshops and colloquia) are invited on all areas of the conference, including the following themes:
- Client-professional Encounters (involving doctors, counsellors, nurses, pharmacists, psychotherapists etc)
- Communicating Risk and Uncertainty
- Communication Skills Training and Problem-based Learning
- Distributed Expertise among Professionals and Clients
- Ethics and Communication
- Health and Disability
- Health and the Lifespan
- Health Literacy
- Identities and Experiences of Illness
- Interprofessional Communication and Hospital Management Systems
- Media and Health Communication
- Medical Education
- Nature of Evidence in Diagnosis and Non-Diagnosis
- Public Understanding of Health and Illness
- Tailoring Health Messages
- Quality of Life and Quality of Care
- Role of Health Technologies and Medical Informatics
- Representation of the Body
- (Shared) Decision Making
- Telemedicine and Mediated Healthcare Delivery
- Values and Responsibilities in Professional Practice
Individual paper/poster proposals should be within 250 words, and proposals for colloquia and workshops should be within 500 words.
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 January 2007
Abstracts (with the heading “COMET2007”) should be sent to:
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