Health Humanities, Medicine & the World Discussion Series: Identity, Community, & Health Humanities

This panel brings together three scholars that study, disabled lives, arts, and culture from different vantage points. Join Prof. Kerri McBee-Black (Textile and Apparel Management), Dr. Joseph Burris (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation), and Prof. Les Gray (Theatre).
Presented by the Center for the Humanities and Next Gen Precision Health

How do the historical development and cultural context of science and technology shape their development and implementation? How can humanities perspectives contribute to the processes of design, diagnosis, treatment? This discussion considers how researchers approach questions of culture, history, ethics, and society in relation to science and technology. Box lunch provided.
MU Panelist
• Lea Brandt (Director, MU Center for Health Ethics)
• Kerri McBee-Black (Assistant Professor, Textile and Apparel Management)
• Julie Passanante Elman (Director, Center for the Humanities and Program in Health Humanities)
• Dave Schulz (Professor, Biology)

How is research in the health humanities affected by individual and collective meanings attached to spaces and places? This discussion will consider how humanities approaches to the history, representation, and cultural politics of “rural,” “urban,” and “global” spaces impact how we think about health challenges of the 21st century. Box lunch provided.
MU Panelists:
• Tracy Greever-Rice (Director, University of Missouri Center for Health Policy)
• Jane McElroy (Professor of Research, Family and Community Medicine)
• Carolyn Orbann (Associate Teaching Professor, College of Health Sciences)
• Srirupa Prasad (Associate Professor, Women’s & Gender Studies)

How do representation and storytelling affect how we understand health, illness, and medicine? This discussion will consider individual and community narratives and cultural representations and how they impact research priorities, diagnosis, and treatment as well as the cultivation of empathy and communication. Box lunch provided.
MU Panelists:
• Katina Bitsicas (Assistant Professor, School of Visual Studies)
• William Kerwin (Professor, English)
• Abby Rolbiecki (Assistant Professor, School of Medicine)
• Kathleen Rose (Assistant Professor, Journalism Studies)