LEVERAGING CHANGE: THE POLITICS and
ECONOMICS OF GLOBAL POVERTY and HEALTH CARE
June 21-24, 2007
http://litmed.hiram.edu
Location: Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities, Hiram College, Hiram, OH USA
Details: Our 2007 Symposium is offered in co-sponsorship with The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, Case Western Reserve University.
Faculty-to-date: Ruth DeGolia, Mercado Global, New Haven, CT; Gilbert Doho, Ph.D., James Kazura, M.D., Patricia Marshall, Ph.D.,Case Western Reserve University; Roy Jacobstein, M.D., MPH, MFA, Clinical Director, EngenderHealth; Elizabeth Kucinich; Isaac Mwase, National Bioethics Center, Tuskegee University; Dennis Raphael, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy and Management, York University, Toronto, Canada; Roger Cram, MBA, Director of Special Projects, and Linda Rea, Ph.D., Professor of Communication, Hiram College; Casey Parks, an aspiring journalist who was picked this year, out of nearly four thousand applicants, to report from Africa with New York Times columnist Nick Kristof; Sonia Shah, investigative reporter, author of: The Body Hunters, an expose of drug industry experimentation on patients in poor countries, and a soon to be released book on the politics and history of malaria for Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Artists-to-date: Passport Project, a multicultural arts education company from Cleveland, will work with us throughout the symposium on dance and a readers’ theater performance of Gilbert Doho?s, VISIONARY OF THE SACRED WOOD, a play about indigenous people defending their home environments and sacred spaces against outside developers.
Questions to be addressed include: What commitments to human moral equality and justice are required of the biomedical research community, public health care planners, providers of health care, and distributors of resources? What are obstacles to and ways of resolving issues of global health care injustice? What are examples of successful solutions or at least steps in that direction? What narratives drive individuals and organizations to adopt other- regarding behavior? How do the world?s drama, music, art and literature help address problems of national and international poverty and health care? What should motivate people to help others—to make a difference or to make a living? Can the two motivations be combined?
Paper proposals: (500 word abstract/reading time 20 minutes) and panel proposals (1000 word abstract/hour and a half presentation time) should be submitted by April 15; notification within two weeks of receipt of proposal, no later than May 1. We also invite proposals from artists, writers, musicians and dramatists about works appropriate to the symposium. Undergraduate and Graduate students (and their advisors) involved in projects in developing countries are encouraged to submit. All accepted presenters must register for the symposium. Submit to Teddie Joeright at joerightta@hiram.edu
Contact: Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities
Phone: 330-569-5380
e-mail: joerightta@hiram.edu
website: litmed.hiram.edu