Announcements

Prim&R Conferences

PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research) and Tufts University School of Medicine will hold a conference on IRBs: Encountering the Special Problems of This Decade, October 19-20, 1995, and a conference on The Future of Clinical AIDS Research, November 9-10, 1995, at the Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, Boston, MA. For information, contact: Joan Rachlin or Aislinn MacMaster, PRIM&R, 132 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116. Tel. 617-423-4112; FAX 617-423-1185.

CEREC Seminars

The CEREC (Clinical Ethics Research, Education and Consultation) Center of Southeast Florida will hold seminars on: Ethical Issues in the Care of Terminally Ill and Dying Patients, December 15-18, 1995; Ethical Issues in Renal Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation, April 26-28, 1996; and Ethical Issues in the Care of Incompetent Patients, August 23-25, 1996, at the Rolling Hills Hotel and Golf Resort, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The seminars, which are limited to 45 participants, combine lectures with participant presentations and parallel sessions on clinical cases. For information, contact: Dr. Jos V. M. Welie, CEREC Center, Box 292932, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33329. Tel./FAX 305-424-9304; Internet: jwelie@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us.

Annual Meeting and Call for Papers

The Association for Practical and Applied Ethics invites submissions of papers, pedagogical demonstrations, posters, and case studies addressing ethical concerns in fields such as public administration, medicine, research ethics, journalism, business, and the like, for its Fifth Annual Meeting, to be held February 29-March 2, 1996, in St. Louis, MO. Deadline for presentation submissions is October 31, 1995. For submission forms and further information, contact: Association for Practical and Applied Ethics, 410 North Park Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405. Tel. 812-855-6450; FAX 812-855-3315; Internet: appe@indiana.edu.

Graduate Diploma in Bioethics

The Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Australia, invites applications for the Graduate Diploma of Bioethics through Distance Education. Applicants normally should have a degree in medicine or another health science, in law, in the biological or social sciences, or in a branch of the humanities. The course is generally taken over two years, part time, with intakes in February and July of each year. For information, contact: Dr. John McKie, Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia 3168. FAX 61-3-990-53279.