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Call for Session Proposals

Call for Session Proposals

The Scientific Committee is now accepting proposals for high quality, timely, innovative, and also educational, sessions to be presented at the ESHMS 17th Biennial Congress, June 7-8, 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal.

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The Conference theme builds on the overall idea of tensions and paradoxes related to rights, knowledge, and trust in health resulting from broad social, political, and economic transformations. Climate change, migrations, flows of refugees, economic crises, unmet health-related rights, need of evidence-based decisions, citizens’ quest for inclusiveness and freely deciding on their own lives, struggle for recognition and legitimacy by different players, the role of the market in the provision of care and funding of scientific research are just a few examples of the processes currently taking place in most countries that require further attention by scholars.

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Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Social inequalities in health, disease and death

  • Effects of social movements on health

  • Adaptation of work models to specific conditions and needs

  • Living and experiencing illness in contexts of crises (e.g. economic, environmental, humanitarian)

  • Users’ experience in accessing healthcare

  • Interactions between practitioners-patients, practitioners-practitioners and practitioners-regulators

  • Features of trust in expert health knowledge

  • The creation and overcome of scientific boundaries in health

  • Measuring and putting in practice evidence-based procedures

  • Lay knowledge and use of evidence-based procedures in health

  • Combining different forms of evidence in health

  • Effects of the market on the provision of care and research agendas

  • Effects of accountability on professionals’ practice and patients’ decisions

  • Ethical dilemmas in health (e.g. death and birth)

  • Climate change and health

  • Social uses of health technologies

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Target Audience

Sociologists, other social scientists, and scholars in interdisciplinary fields related to medicine, health, and illness. Scholars in medical humanities, public health, governance and administrative sciences are particularly encouraged to participate.

Session Proposals

Session proposals must be submitted in English and consist of:

  1. Title

  2. Extended abstract (max 500 words)

  3. Submitter’s name, filiation and email

  4. Submitter’s Bionote (max. 100 words)

Session organizers’ role in the meeting

The expectation is that the conference runs as smoothly and pleasant as possible. Session organizers therefore play a key role in ensuring the success of their sessions. Always in close dialogue with the conference host, their role in the meeting includes:

  • Reviewing and deciding on the acceptance or rejection of the paper proposals submitted to the session

  • Liaising with the conference organization and participants in the session.

Additional information
  • The conference language will be English.

  • All rooms are equipped with a PC, a projector and a screen.

  • Every session has one session organizer who is the main interlocutor with the conference Host and participants. A second co-organizer is allowed.

  • Session organizers can organize one session only, although they can be co-organizers of another session.

  • Session organizers are allowed to submit papers to the conference.

  • Session organizers are required to register and pay the registration fee.

All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to eshms2018@iscte.pt and to the Conference Host, Tiago Correia (tiago.correia@iscte.pt).

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Proposals will be accepted beginning February 2017 through 15 April, 2017. Submitters will receive notification by late June as to the disposition of session submissions.

Submission of Session proposals
Selection Process

Sessions are reviewed, scored and ultimately selected by the Scientific Committee of the Conference. On occasion, submitters can be asked for further clarification. The scientific Committee reserves the right to reject proposals that do not fit in the editorial of the congress and to merge overlapping proposals. Assessment criteria include adherence to the conference theme, consideration of the most relevant literature, originality, formal presentation and geographical diversity.

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Download Call for Sessions as PDF file.

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Further questions should be addressed to tiago.correia@iscte-iul.pt.

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