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Language and Health – Ethical and Policy Issues (with a special focus on consent)
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Hôtel de l'ITHQ, Montreal (3535 Rue Saint-Denis)
September 28-30, 2017
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Call for papers - 2016 Research Conference (pdf)
For almost a decade Health Canada has been funding important and innovative research on linguistic issues in healthcare provision, through HCALM (Health Care Access for Linguistic Minorities) Network – an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional community of researchers. The project comprises the research capacity of the larger Training and Retention of Health Professionals Project (TRHP), based at the Institute for Health and Social Policy at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
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The HCALM network now invites submissions for its 2017 annual conference on the topic of ‘language and health – ethical and policy issues’. Language and health are interrelated in myriad ways, ranging from issues of physical and mental healthcare provision in multilingual societies, to health literacy and communication among patients, practitioners and policymakers, and to discourses of health and wellbeing. In accordance with the strong interdisciplinary nature of HCALM’s community of researchers, the conference welcomes submissions which bring together theories, frameworks, concepts and methods from a broad range of disciplines in the medical sciences, social sciences and the humanities. Similarly, it invites submissions that address the significant ethical and policy issues at the interface of public health and language (including sign language) policy, broadly interpreted.Ìý
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Plenary speakers:
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Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, bioethicist (Gallaudet)
Marc Zaffran, M.D., physician-writer (Montreal)
Chad Katsenhakeron Diabo, MHFA youth trainer and first responder (Kahnawake)
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One of the three days of the conference will be dedicated specifically to the topic of consent in the context of language and health. Relevant papers may explore, for example, the nature and basis of medical consent; the impact of language barriers on the formation and expression of consent; informed consent, linguistic autonomy and health beliefs; and medical consent and epistemic injustice. The list is suggestive rather than exhaustive, and the convenors welcome papers that explore any pertinent issues relating to the topic.
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Abstracts (app. 300 words) should be sent to Daniel Weinstock and Yael Peled (hcalm-network.ihsp [at] mcgill.ca). The deadline for submissions is April 9, 2017.
