The American Society for Dental Ethics

The American Society for Dental Ethics exists to support ethics as an integral value for the dental health care professions. The members of the Society are dedicated to the ongoing study of ethical issues and education to promote professional responsibility and conduct, thereby enhancing oral health care for those we serve.

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The Kennedy Institute of Ethics in Washington, DC is holding a Dental Ethics Symposium from 1-5 pm on Sunday, June 6, 2010 on the Georgetown University Main Campus. It is a special interest event for individuals who are also attending the Institute=s 36th annual Intensive Bioethics Course, June 6-11. Donald E. Patthoff, DDS and James R. Rule, DDS will be part of the leadership for the Symposium. Participants from the Dental Ethics Symposium also will gather on Thursday, June 10 for a dental ethics luncheon roundtable to discuss future directions and possible collaborations. Additionally, the Kennedy Institute will co-sponsor with the American College of Dentists a public plenary lecture on dental ethics that will be presented by David T. Ozar, Ph.D. on Wednesday, June 9 at Georgetown. Dr. Ozar will focus on dentistry=s central practice values and professional ethics generally. He is Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies in Health Care Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. He co-authored (with David Sokol, DDS) Dental Ethics at Chairside: Professional Principles and Practical Applications (2nd ed. 2002). All are welcome to attend this lecture. Faculty, staff, and students from area dental schools and dental professionals from a several state region will be invited. Following the talk, there will opportunities for questions and ongoing conversation and reflection over light refreshments.

For details about the Dental Ethics program and the Intensive Bioethics Course see:

http://kennedyinstitute.georgetown.edu/courses/ibc/2010_IBCBrochure.pdf

James T. Rule, DDS, MS;
Professor Emeritus Department of Pediatric Dentistry
Dental School University of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland

Donald E. Patthoff,
DDS Past President of the WV Dental Association Fellow,
American College of Dentists Dental Practice in Martinsburg, West Virginia

August 18-20, 2010

8th International Dental Ethics and Law Congress

IDEALS

The Bulletin of the International Dental Ethics and Law Society (IDEALS) is now available to non-members, at the website www.ideals.ac . The upcoming issue of the Bulletin will be devoted to dental ethics education.

The 8th International Dental Ethics and Law Congress (August 18-20, 2010) will be devoted to the theme of "Dental Ethics, Law, and Information Technology." Anybody interested in attending is invited and encouraged to submit an abstract at the IDEALS website at www.ideals.ac.

8th International Dental Ethics and Law Congress
Theme: Dentistry and Information Technology: Ethical and legal Considerations
Dates: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - Friday, August 20, 2010
Location: University of Helsinki
University of Helsinki - Biomedicum
Haartmaninkatu 8
Helsinki 00100 Finland
Phone: +358 9 1911 / +358 9 4711

- Jos VM Welie, MA, MMedS, JD, PhD Professor of Medical and Dental Ethics Center for Health Policy and Ethics Creighton University

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Ozar/Hasegawa Award

Ozar/Hasegawa Award has extended the deadline for student applications to February, 2010. All dental and dental hygiene students who are enrolled in an accredited school of dentistry and/or dental hygiene program in the United States and Canada. Students must be in good academic standing.

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October 21-24, 2010

ASBH 12th Annual Meeting

Theme: Health and Community
Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel
San Diego, CA

Bioethics has been particularly concerned with the rights and welfare of individual patients and has often been criticized for not attending sufficiently to problems related to the health of populations. But there is little doubt that bioethics and the humanities have much to contribute to concerns connected to groups as well as individuals. We thus invite scholars to address health, disability, and disease as it affects local, national, and global groups. Healthcare professionals, researchers, humanists, and lawyers, can bring experiences, expertise, and interests that shape our understanding of the health of communities as it informs and is informed by ethics, law, politics, medicine, and the humanities. Proposals that critically examine issues related to social groups--such as the appropriate distribution of societal resources, the ways in which literature, film, and the arts inform concerns about the health of populations and our understanding of communities, healthcare professionals' duty to warn in cases of communicable disease (e.g., HIV/AIDS), the fair distribution of health resources (e.g., medical supplies, water, etc.) during a natural disaster, the various contributions of the arts and the humanities to the health of communities, the social determinants of health and disease, healthcare disparities, the ways historical perspectives can bear on present day policy issues, and conflicts of values between different populations--are welcomed.

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