[ecrea] 12th International Conference on Communication, Medicine & Ethics (COMET)

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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