It is a great pleasure to invite you to the inaugural Conference on Disease-Mongering to be held in Newcastle New South Wales, Australia on April 11th to 13th 2006.
The early bird registration deadline is Feb 24th. Deadline for abstracts is March 1st 2006
Invited speakers include :
Joe Collier (UK)
Joel Lexchin (Canada)
David Healy (UK)
Steve Woloshin (USA)
Lisa Schwartz (USA)
Leonore Tiefer (USA)
Barbara Mintzes (Canada)
Iona Heath (UK)
Ray Moynihan (Australia)
Ian Kerridge (Australia)
David Henry (Australia)
The conference will bring together academics, researchers, health professionals, health managers, journalists, writers and consumers who share an interest and concern over the trend to corporate definitions of diseases with a primary interest in making profits rather than a concern for the public health.
The Conference will feature speakers who are internationally recognized in this field. We are also inviting free papers on any topic related to disease-mongering and medicalisation.The conference will be organized around a mixture of plenary, parallel and small group sessions.
The aims of the conference are to review a range of examples of disease-mongering, to develop a common view on the character and magnitude of the problems created by disease-mongering, to develop some position statements and a research agenda that will hopefully lead to collaborative projects
Professor David Henry, Physician, School of Medical Practice and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Ray Moynihan, Journalist and Writer, School of Medical Practice and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Conference web site:
http://www.diseasemongering.org/
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