Sara Goering (Philosophy)

Janelle Taylor (Anthropology)

Kelly Fryer-Edwards (Medical History & Ethics)

Linda Nash (History)

Helene Starks (Medical History & Ethics)

Mark Sullivan (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences)

Rachel Chapman (Anthropology)

James Pfeiffer (Health Services)

Project website

2006-2007 Project Archive
2005-2006 Project Archive

This research cluster is a crossdisciplinary effort that brings together scholars with shared interests in critical and interdisciplinary perspectives on health, illness, and medicine.

In its fourth year, Critical Medical Humanities will focus on the theme of "placing" global health, that is, considering global health issues in local context in order to better understand them and to implement just solutions. In particular, we aim to highlight the importance of situating responsibilities for and solutions to ill health in a manner sensitive to histories and power dynamics in particular settings, and in equitable consultation with local peoples.

We will invite three outside speakers to give public lectures and participate in classroom discussions and reading groups with faculty and graduate students. Audiences at each event are invited to attend receptions, a primary goal of which is to build community among scholars with shared interests at the University of Washington.

The group also maintains a listserv for sharing notice of local events of interest.

"Inclusion and Difference: Gender, Race, and the New Biopolitics of Medical Research"

Wed, November 7, 2007
4:00 pm; CMU 120

Steven Epstein
(Sociology, University of California San Diego)

"Whither Bioethics? From Feminist Bioethics to Public Ethics in an Era of Global Threats"

Wed, February 27, 2008
4:00 pm; CMU 120

Sue Sherwin
(Philosophy and Gender & Women's Studies, Dalhousie University)



"Not Dead Yet: the Disability Angle"

Wed, May 14, 2008
4:00 pm; CMU 120

Jerome Bickenbach
(Philosophy, Queen's University)

Discussion with Jerome Bickenbach

Tue, May 13, 2008
12:00 pm; CMU 202