EACME Newsletter 29

1 December 2011
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EDITORIAL R. Porz and R. Pegoraro

CONFERENCE DE L’EACME A ISTANBUL, DU 15 AU 17 SEPTEMBER 2011 J. Martin

2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF EACME IN BRISTOL 20-22 SEPTEMBER 2012 R. ter Meulen

IntegratedEthics: AN INNOVATIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE MODEL FOR ETHICS IN HEALTH CARE M. Bottrell and E. Fox

Autoritarisme moral dans le domaine médico-social En Suisse, une attaque regrettable en rapport avec l’interruption de grossesse J. Martin

Dignity in care, enhancing ethical practice and critical reflection through the sTimul experience in a care ethics lab P. Boitte

THESIS: Photography as a nursing instrument in mental health care. How to use clients’ photo stories for recovery J. Sitvast

THESIS: Patient participation and knowledge K. Schipper

Embryos without secrets. The dilemma’s of preimplantation screening. K. Hens

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The power of images

The year 2011 is coming to an end. Some of you will celebrate Christmas, others won’t, but none of us can withdraw from the enormous advertisement campaigns which roll over shops, stores and supermarkets. Incredibly colorful, overwhelming, ‘buy this’, ‘you need that’, ‘this is a “must have” for this year’s Christmas party’, pictures of happy families and images of happy kids receiving their Christmas presents – well, we guess most of us are more than skeptical about the seductive images which pretend to tell us meaningful stories about the happiness of seemingly “good” families. Stories, narratives, pictures, meaning-making – we can offer you something more interesting inside this newsletter: Jan Sitvast investigated the role of photography to assist psychiatric patients in making sense of their illness experiences. He speaks of “hermeneutic photography”. Participants were instructed to make photographs of what they value as important in their lives. These photographs were then used for further exploration of the photographer’s subjective experiences. He reports that some patients then progressed in reconstructing their live stories, and that their research approach helped the patients to better re-conceptualize future life plans. This might be a new way to think about photos in a clinical setting and it proves that bioethicists can be innovative in combining common technologies within new settings and in relation to new applications. That brings us to another interesting point of this newsletter. New settings, new applications, the discipline of bioethics is steadily growing older, bioethics’ identity is constantly changing and we will discuss these issues when we meet in Bristol next year for the 2012 EACME conference. It is not just another EACME conference, it is a celebration of the 25-years-history of EACME. We are very much looking forward to this and you find a report of this upcoming event written by the conference host Prof. Ruud ter Meulen.