A New Website for HES

by David Townend (Health, Ethics and Society: Health Law)

The Department of Health, Ethics and Society has a new website, and with it this new Blog.

http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/hes

Health, Ethics and Society is a relatively new interdisciplinary department in the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences in Maastricht University. It brings together a number of former departments and the Institute of Ethics under one department. In practice that means two things:

first, we have colleagues in the one department who approach health in society questions from different, complimentary disciplines;

second, we bring those interdisciplinary approaches to our teaching and research.

We have colleagues who have their disciplinary roots in philosophy and ethics, in anthropology and gender studies, in medical history, in sociology and law. We work in an interdisciplinary way through developing courses and research together, and through the common life of the department - the colloquia and general discussions about news and developing issues.

You can see many of the funded research projects that we are either co-ordinating or participating in on our website; you can also see information about our courses and the degree programmes to which we contribute.

What will this blog contribute to health, ethics and society?

Through the blog, we want to develop some of our teaching and research ideas. We will comment on different developments in our field, perhaps from one point of view, perhaps reflecting discussions in the department. The authorship of the post will be clear at the top of each post. We will also use it to publicise new events (seminars, Ph.D. promotions, etc.). You can follow these using the RSS feed.

We welcome your comments, within the usual rules that we reserve the right to remove content that is obscene, illegal, and the like. And we encourage academic challenge to our views.

We look forward to hearing from you, and we hope you will look forward to hearing from us.