Career Development Programs
ASBH offers a variety of programs to support students, early-career individuals, and those new to the fields of bioethics and the health humanities.
Conference Panel
ASBH's Career Development Task Force is excited to announce a new panel at the 2023 Annual Conference! The panel will take place on Saturday, October 14, from 10:30–11:45 AM Eastern Time.
All conference attendees are invited to join the session. This panel will offer attendees insights into the peer review process. Audience members will have a chance to submit questions and guide discussion topics as they hear from a journal’s associate editor, book editor, and grant reviewer in the field. We invite early-career scholars and students to learn more about how they can better match their work to a reviewer’s expectations and avoid common mistakes.
Meet the Expert
The Meet the Expert session is an opportunity for a small group of students, trainees, and early career individuals to meet with nationally-renowned experts in bioethics and health humanities in a friendly, casual setting during the Annual Meeting. The Meet the Expert program is not a forum for individual advising, but rather an opportunity to engage in an hour-long group conversation with other participants and the Expert.Available space is limited; priority access to the sessions will be given to those that sign-up in advance.
Thursday, October 12, 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Keisha Ray – Author, Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People’s Health (Oxford, 2023)
Black Health provides a succinct discussion of Black people's health, including the social, political, and at times cultural determinants of their health. Using real stories from Black people, Ray examines the ways in which Black people's multiple identities--social, cultural, and political--intersect with American institutions--such as housing, education, environmentalism, and health care--to facilitate their poor outcomes in pregnancy and birth, pain management, sleep, and cardiovascular disease. (Amazon.com)
Thaddeus Pope – Editor, Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely-Available Option for Hastening Death (Oxford 2021)
This volume provides a realistic, appropriately critical, yet supportive assessment of voluntary stopping eating and drinking (VSED). Eight illustrative, previously unpublished real cases are included, receiving pragmatic analysis in each chapter. The volume's integrated, multi-professional, multi-disciplinary character makes it useful for a wide range of readers: patients considering present or future end-of-life options and their families, clinicians of all kinds, ethicists, lawyers, and institutional administrators. (Amazon.com)
Friday, October 13, 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Connie Ulrich - Editor, Nurses and COVID-19: Ethical Considerations in Pandemic Care (2022)
This volume aims to bring conceptual clarity about moral distress and distinguish it from related concepts. Explicit attention is given to the voices and experiences of health care professionals from multiple disciplines and many parts of the world. Contributors explain the evolution of the concept of moral distress, sources of moral distress including those that arise at the unit/team and organization/system level, and possible solutions to address moral distress at every level. A liberal use of case studies make the phenomenon palpable to readers. (Amazon.com)
Dave Wendler – Author, Life without Degrees of Moral Status: Implications for Rabbits, Robots and the Rest of Us (Oxford 2023)
Degrees of moral status require moral status enhancing properties. However, the author argues that there are no moral status enhancing properties, and thus, no degrees of moral status. What implications does this conclusion have for how we should treat animals, whether it is acceptable to experiment on them and eat them for dinner? What implications does it have for how future advanced robots and genetically enhanced human beings ought to treat us? Would it be acceptable for them to conduct experiments on us, or eat us for dinner? Wendler's book addresses these and related questions. (Amazon.com)
Early Career Advisor Program (ECAP)
ECAP gives individuals early in their careers in health humanities or bioethics the opportunity to discuss a paper or project with experienced ASBH members or meet with an experienced ASBH member to discuss professional development. The program is organized into two different tracks. You may only apply to one program track.
We are currently accepting applications for advisees in the 2023 cycle, now through Friday, September 15, 2023. Read on to learn more about the available program tracks and qualificiations.
Paper or Project Track
The goal of this track is to pair a learner with a professional who can advise them on one particular small project. It is not intended to help you find a thesis advisor, give you a peer-review grant score, or edit an entire screen play. Early career members of ASBH are invited to submit up to 20 pages of their paper or project and a curriculum vitae. Examples of projects that are appropriate for submission include scholarly journal article, a specific aims or methods section of a grant, or curriculum/course design.
Professional Development
The goal of this track is to pair a learner with an advisor in teaching, grant writing, publishing, engaging the public, or securing a job. Early career members of ASBH are invited to submit their CV and a completed application identifying questions related to professional development they would like to discuss with a seasoned ASBH member.
Program Guidelines
- Participants of both Early Career Advisor Program tracks must meet one of the following criteria:
- Currently enrolled in a graduate program or less than 7 years since completion of post-graduate training (e.g., MA, PhD, fellowship)
- Consider yourself an early career scholar in bioethics or health humanities
- You may only apply to one program track.
- ASBH members and student attendees at the Annual Conference are invited to apply and participate.