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[ecrea] 12th International Conference on Communication, Medicine & Ethics (COMET)
Fri Jan 17 05:15:15 GMT 2014
We wish to remind you of the call for the 12th International Conference
on Communication, Medicine & Ethics (COMET) 2014, which will be held at
the University of Lugano, Switzerland, from June 26-28, 2014.
The conference aims to bring together scholars from different
disciplinary backgrounds involving various healthcare specialties 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 healthcare practitioners.
We would like to invite abstracts and proposals to be submitted online
at www.comet.usi.ch by January 31, 2014 (23:59 h. EST).
Please visit www.comet.usi.ch or send an e-mail to (comet /at/ usi.ch) for
further details regarding submission guidelines, registration, programme
of events, and more.
Conference topics include:
· Argumentation and Rhetoric in Health
· Client-Professional Encounters (involving doctors, counselors,
nurses, pharmacists, dentists, speech and language therapists,
psychotherapists, etc.)
· Communicating Risk and Uncertainty
· Communication Skills Training
· Distributed Expertise among Professionals and Clients
· Ethics and Communication
· Health and Disability
· Health and the Lifespan
· Health Literacy
· Identities and Experiences of Illness
· Interpreter Mediated Healthcare Delivery
· 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
· Quality of Life and Quality of Care
· Representation of the Body
· Research Ethics
· Role of Health Technologies and Medical Informatics
· (Shared) Decision Making
· Tailoring Health Messages
· Telemedicine
· Values and Responsibilities in Professional Practice
We would be most grateful if you could forward this information to
anyone who could be interested in this event.
Best regards,
On behalf of the COMET 2014 Organising Committee,
Peter J. Schulz, Ph.D., Professor
Institute of Communication and Health (Director)
Faculty of Communication Sciences
University of Lugano
Via G. Buffi 6
CH 6900 Lugano
(comet /at/ usi.ch)
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