Health Ethics Symposium 2024
About
Disability ethics is a crucial topic for contemporary health ethics that has grown out of the disability rights movement. At its core, disability ethics is an interdisciplinary approach to health ethics that forefronts the perspectives and experiences of individuals living with disabilities, recognizing that what constitutes a disability is, in part, socially constructed.
While disability ethics addresses a manifold of topics shared with other approaches to health ethics, it uniquely forefronts how people with disabilities access care, receive care, and are providers of care. It challenges traditional societal conceptions around normalcy and ability not only to ensure the rights of people with disabilities are upheld, but also so society benefits from the knowledge, insights, and other contributions of individuals living with disabilities.
The purpose of this symposium is to explore disability ethics and intersecting contemporary topics within and beyond Canada: How do we understand the relationship between traditional bioethics and disability rights/disability ethics? What are the consequences of public policy that differentially impacts individuals with disabilities? How do we understand the imperative for the education of healthcare professionals to include disability ethics?
Keynote Speaker: Joel Michael Reynolds
Panelists: Chloë G. K. Atkins, C. Dalrymple-Fraser, Isabel Grant, Nancy Hansen, Heidi Janz, Carrielynn Lund, Marghalara Rashid, Sebastian Straube, Gregor Wolbring, and Michael van Manen
Target Audience
Health Care Practitioners, Scholars, Researchers, Students, Ethicists and Clinical Ethics Committee Members, Health Care Administrators and Managers, Spiritual Care Providers, Social Workers, Caregivers, Patients and Families, and General Public.
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The event will be ASL interpreted
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