Proposals
Proposals for 2025 Spring Conference
March 8, 2025
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until Dec 22, 2024
The 5th Annual Midwest Medical Humanities Student Conference,
"Moral Imagination"
will focus on discussing medicine, health, disease, healing, and patient care through an interdisciplinary approach in research, art, poetry, music, and other interactive activities.​
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We are looking for projects or topics that surrounds and provokes moral imagination, although any kind of presentation, research, papers, or creative project related to Medical/Health Humanities are welcome.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
"Moral Imagination":​
Moral imagination can be understood as ways to build empathy, compassion, and attention. Other definitions of moral imagination:
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“The presumed mental capacity to create or use ideas, images, and metaphors [to] discern moral truths or to develop moral responses.” -Britannica
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“The moral imagination considers an issue in light of the whole ... [It] broadens and deepens the context of decision making”. -Thomas E. McCollough
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Examples of topics under the theme moral imagination but not limited to:
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-How literature (novel, poetry, narrative) may influence the practice/education/understanding of medicine
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-To what extent media affects the perception of healthcare
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-Historical perspectives on different aspects of medicine/health
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Keep in mind that medical humanities implore us to envision medicine/health from the lens of literature, history, philosophy, art, and other humanities and social science disciplines.
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Please remember that we are focusing on "qualitative humanistic and socio-cultural context of health care
*in contrast to* the clinical/objective approach traditionally taken in biomedicine" (IU Indianapolis School of Liberal Arts MHHS).
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Please refer to "Past Projects" to see what we have accepted in the past.
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