End of Life: Law, Ethics, Policy & Practice—Brisbane, QLD, Australia

The Queensland University of Technology Health Law Research Centre, Dalhousie Health Law Institute and Tsinghua Health Law Research Centre present the International Conference on End of Life: Law, Ethics, Policy and Practice 2014 (ICEL 2014) Aug. 13-15, 2014, at Queensland University of Technology. Abstracts must be submitted by April 30, 2014.

The Conference will provide a global forum at which health law scholars, bioethicists, legal and health practitioners, and health law and bioethics institutions can meet to discuss and present on law, ethics, policy and practice relating to the end of life, in particular around the conference’s four sub-themes:

  • Withholding and withdrawal of potentially life-sustaining treatment (e.g. advance care planning, futile treatment)
  • Palliative care and terminal sedation
  • Euthanasia and assisted suicide
  • Determination of death and organ and tissue donation.

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