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Vol. 3, No. 3, September 1983
"Annoucements"

CONFERENCES: A conference on the Regulation of Hospital Privileges for Health Care Providers will be held in St. Louis, Missouri at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel on November 10-12, 1983. It will be sponsored by the American Society of Law & Medicine and the Center for Health Law Studies. St. Louis University School of Law. For further information contact this Center at 3700 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63108. Phone: (314)658-2777.

On November 17-19, 1983, the Seventeenth Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, "Conflicts with Newborns: Saving Lives, Scarce Resources, and Euthanasia," will be held at Mercer University, Macon Georgia. For further information contact: Richard McMillan, M.D., Mercer Medical School, Macon, GA 31207.Phone(912)744-4045.

PUBLICATION: The Center for the Study of Science in Society is pleased to announce the second volume in its series of Working Papers. This volume, titled The Demarcation between Science and Pseudo-Science, is edited by Rachel Laudan and contains papers presented at the conference of that title held in 1982 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. To obtain a copy, send a check for $4.00 to the Center at Price House, Virginia Polytechic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061.

GRANTS: The National Endowment for the Humanities announces that its program on Science, Technology, and Human Values program has a new name: Humanities, Science and Technology. Along with the name change, the program is broadening the range of topics it will support. Formal guidelines will be announced this fall, and the first deadline will be March 1, 1984. For more information, contact either DavidWright, Program Officer, or Eric T. juengst, Program Specialist; Humanities, Science and Technology Program; Division of Research Programs; National Endowment for the Humanities; 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.; Washington, D.C. 20506. Phone: (202) 786-0207.

PRIZE: Business & Professional Ethics Journal announces a $500 prize for the best paper from a student in a graduate or professional program. They will publish the winning entry. The deadline is January 15, 1984. You may contact this Journal at the Center for the Study of Values, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19711.

The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology was established in 1976 for the purpose of promoting education and scholarship relating to ethical end policy issues of the professions.

EDITOR: Mark S. Frankel
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Warren Schmaus
STAFF: Marion Denne, Jessica Tovrov
EDITORIAL BOARD: Thomas Calero, Frederick Elliston, Mark Frankel, Norman Gevitz, Martin Mahn, Vivian Weil.

Opinions expressed in Perspectives on the Professions are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions or the Illinois Institute of Technology: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, N. 60616.

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