Annual Conference

ASBH 23rd Annual Conference

Program Theme
Bioethics and Humanities at the Crossroads

Program Description

ASBH’s 23rd Annual Conference takes its inspiration from our original meeting location at the “Crossroads of America”: Indianapolis, Indiana. With the decision to hold a dynamically virtual Annual Conference in 2021, we will explore critically the many intersections of bioethics, health humanities, and the worlds with which we engage. The responses to COVID-19—both national and global—have awakened deep concerns about our healthcare systems, systemic inequity, and divergent worldviews, as well as awareness of the potential for new alliances and creative solutions. As we converge together digitally—recognizing that we are people with different values, beliefs, identities, perspectives, experiences, knowledge, and skills—let us foreground the many strengths of our diverse community to address these challenges, envision these possibilities, and chart new paths forward.

The conference will address how can we recognize and amplify the essential contributions made at the intersection of bioethics and health humanities? What relationship to activism and advocacy may or should these fields have? With increased attention being given to critical and intersectional methodologies in bioethics and health humanities discourse that engage with age, class, disability, immigration status, race and ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and gender identity, and other essential perspectives—how might we think about the scope and access of our fields? What expanded public roles or new contributions might lie ahead for these fields?

After participating in this conference, attendees should be able to:

Explore emerging issues in bioethics and the health humanities
Discuss and apply recent research findings and insights from critical methodologies related to bioethics and the health humanities
Demonstrate how bioethics and health humanities intersect to address emerging issues
Identify opportunities to advocate for structural, cultural, and disciplinary changes through examination of diverse values and viewpoints

Session topics include:

Clinical ethics and clinical ethics consultation
Religion, culture and social sciences
Arts and literature
Philosophy and history
Research ethics and empirical research
Law, public health policy, organizational ethics
Education and inter-professional studies
Diversity, disparity and inclusion

Schedule

The ASBH 23nd Annual Conference preliminary education schedule is available here.

Who Should Attend

The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Annual Conference is designed for physicians, nurses, attorneys, historians, philosophers, professors of literature and the humanities, members of the clergy, social workers, and others engaged in endeavors related to clinical and academic bioethics and the health-related humanities.

View or print the full conference brochure here.

Registration

Plenary Sessions

Preconference Sessions

Continuing Education Credit

Exhibits/Advertising/Support

Past/Future Conferences

Productive Engagement

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