Placebo-controlled Studies in Schizophrenia: Ethical and Scientific Perspectives, Aldwyn B. Stokes Auditorium, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario. Presented by the Schizophrenia Division, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. Contact: Catherine Riley, Conference Coordinator, Education Office, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1R8. Tel: (416) 979-6963;

Fax: (416) 979-4970.

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada 66th Annual Meeting – Theme: "Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion", Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre, 999 Canada Place, Vancouver, BC V6C 3C1. Contact: Chantal Heath, RCPSC, 774 Echo Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5N8. Tel: (613) 730-6233; Fax: (613) 730-8252.

Health Work and Wellness Conference ’97, Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC. Sponsored by Healthcare Benefit Trust, hosted by Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre. Contact: website: http://www.vanhosp.bc.ca.

7th Regional Symposium – Resource Allocation Decision-Making for New & Emerging Health Technologies, The Westin Nova Scotian, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Presented by the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA) in collaboration with the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and the Office of Bioethics Education and Research at Dalhousie University. Contact: Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA), 110-995 Green Valley Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, K2C 3V4. Tel: (613) 226-2553; Fax: (613) 226-5392; e-mail: pubs@ccohta.ca or on the Internet at http://www. ccohta.ca.

9th Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference – Theme: Changing the System – Interprofessional and Interdisciplinary Decision Making , Westin Hotel, 1181 Hollis St., Halifax, NS. Contact: Dr. Nuala Kenny, Planning Coordinator, Bioethics Education and Research, Dalhousie University, 5849 University Avenue, Halifax, NS, B3H 4H7. Tel: (902) 494-3801; Fax: (902) 494-3865; e-mail: nkenny@tupdeanl.med.dal.ca.

Canadian Psychiatric Association 47th Annual Meeting. Theme: Social Commitment: Redefining the Role of Psychiatrists, Palliser Hotel, Calgary, Alberta. Contact: Kim Arial, Manager, Corporate Affairs, Canadian Psychiatric Association, 200-237 Argyle Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 1B8. Tel: (613) 234-2815; Fax: (613) 234-9857.

National Research Council Canada VIIIth Industrial Biotechnology Conference, Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Ontario. Contact: Pierre Lamoureux, Conference Services, National Research Council of Canada, M19, Montreal Road, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R6. Tel: (613) 993-9431; Fax: (613) 993-7250; e-mail: biotech97@nrc.ca.

Human Subject Protections Workshop, Cavanaugh’s Inn on Fifth Avenue, Seattle, Washington, USA, Tel: (206) 971-8000. Jointly sponsored by: The University of Washington School of Medicine, Indian Health Service, Office for Protection from Research Risks, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Seattle Indian Health Board. Contact: Continuing Medical Education, 1325 Fourth Avenue, Suite 2000, Seattle, WA 98101, USA. Tel: (206) 543-1050 or 800-869-2663; Fax: (206) 543-0364.

International Conference on Human Rights, Bioethics and Health, Paris, France. Sponsored by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) and the International Association of Law, Ethics, and Science (IALES). Contact: M..F. Albanese, Groupe de Milazzo, 6 place des Tripiers, 6700 Strasbourg, France. Tel: +33 3 88 41 22 33; Fax: +33 3 88 41 27 84.

World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Special Program on Health Care Technology Assessment, Nice, France. Contact: NICE ‘97 - SEE, 48 rue de la Procession, 75724, Paris Cedex 15, France.

Advanced GCP Workshop: New Techniques, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA Tel: (215) 625-2900; Fax: (215) 625-6097. Presented by the Drug Information Association (DIA). Contact: Drug Information Association, Ambler, PA, USA, Tel: +1 215-628-2288; Fax: +1 215-641-1229; e-mail: dia@diahome.org.

Annual Intensive Course on Medical Ethics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom. Contact: Prof. Raanan Gillon, Analytic Ethics Unit, Imperial College, London SW7, UK. Tel: +44 (0)171 594 8747/8; Fax: +44 (0)171 594 8749; e-mail: r.gillon@ic.ac.uk; OR Sally Verkaik (same address), e-mail: cpd@ic.ac.uk.

The International Congress on Biomedical Peer Review and Global Communications, Prague, Czech Republic. Presented by JAMA, the BMJ, and Project HOPE. Contact: Annette Flanagin, JAMA, 515 N State St., Chicago, IL 60610, USA. Tel: (312) 464-2432; Fax: (312) 464-5824; e-mail: jama-peer@ama-assn.org or Website at http://www.ama-assn.org/peer.

Conference on "Contemporary Issues in Human Subject Research", University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC. Sponsored by the Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food & Drug Adminsitration (FDA). Contact: Lucy Henry or Julie Eacho, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Office of Research, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 29223. Tel: (704) 547-2291; Fax: (704) 547-2144; e-mail: jaeacho@mail.uncc.edu.

European Conference on Clinical Trials and Ethics, Brussels, Belgium. Contact: Francis P. Crawley, Chair, Ethics Working Party, EFGCP, Schoolbergenstraat 47, B-3010 Kessel-Lo, Belgium. Tel/Fax: +32 16 35 03 69.

CERES (Consumers for Ethics in Research) Conference on Clinical Research, Ethics and the Consumer – A Voice for the Guinea Pig, Conference Centre, 27 Britannia Street, London WC1. Contact: CERES, PO Box 1365, London N16 OBW. Tel: 01 753-652781; Fax: 01 753-654142.

First World Conference – Ethics Codes in Medicine and Biotechnology – Health Care Ethics: Nuremberg 50 Years on, Freiburg i.Br., Germany. Presented by The Freiburg Project of the German AKADEMIE FÜR ETHIK IN DER MEDIZIN and ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITÄT, Freiburg. Sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology, German Federal Research Council. Contact: Kongress & Kommunikation, Universitätsklinikum der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Hugstetter Str. 55, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany. Tel: +49 (0)761-270-7315; Fax: +49 (0)761-270-3398; e-mail: kkkri@sun11.ukl.uni-freiburg.de.

Third International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable and 9th Annual Meeting Japan Association of Bioethics, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Contact: Dr. Darryl Macer, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305, Japan. Tel: Int+81-298-53-4662; Fax: Int+81-298-53-6614; e-mail: Macer@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp.

UNESCO Asian Bioethics Conference (ABC’97), Second Congress of the East Asian Association of Bioethics, The Third MURS Japan International Symposium, Kobe, Japan. Contact: Emeritus Professor Norio Fujiki, Secretary General, UNESCO ABC’97, Department of Internal Medicine, Fukui Medical School, Matsuokacho, Fukui 910-11, Japan. Tel: Int+81-776-61-311 ext. 2300; Fax: Int+81-776-61-8110.

Joint Meeting of AAB, Society for Bioethics Consultation, and Society for Health and Human Values - Theme: Visions for Ethics and Humanities in a Changing Healthcare Environment, Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Contact: Joint Meeting, 6728 Old McLean Village Dr., McLean, VA 22101, USA. Fax: Int+1-703-556-8729; e-mail: shhv@aol.com.

PRIM&R Conference: "Reviewing and Revising the Expedited Categories of Research", Bethesda, Maryland. Contact: PRIM&R, 132 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116, USA. Tel: (617) 423-4112; Fax: (617) 423-1185; e-mail: prmr@aol.com or Website: http://www.aamc.org/research/primr.

Sixth International Bioethics Seminar in Fukui, Fukui Bioethics Symposium on Medical Genetic Services, Fukui, Japan. Contact: Emeritus Professor Norio Fujiki, Secretary General, UNESCO ABC’97, Department of Internal Medicine, Fukui Medical School, Matsuokacho, Fukui 910-11, Japan. Tel: Int+81-776-61-311 ext. 2300; Fax: Int+81-776-61-8110.

Ethics and Genetics: Advanced European Bioethics Course, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Contact: Dr. Bert Gordijn, 232 Dept. Ethics, Philosophy & History of Medicine, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. e-mail: b.gordijn@efg.kun.nl.

International Conference on Genetic Information: Acquisition, Access and Control, The Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, UK. Organised by The Centre for Professional Ethics, the Euroscreen Network on Ethics of Genetic Screening in association with the International Association of Bioethics. Contact: Lisa Smith, CCL, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, Lancashire, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel: +44 1772 892255; Fax: +44 1772 892938; e-mail: l.smith1@uclan.ac.uk.