Proposal Categories
Please indicate the categories for which you would like to review based on the below descriptions, keeping in mind your background and qualifications.
- Clinical Ethics: Proposals in this category are primarily concerned with clinical ethics consultation practice, such as, but not limited to, end-of-life issues, pediatric ethics, or surrogate decision making.
- Diversity, Disparity, and Inclusion: While proposals in this category may relate to the other topics, these proposals are primarily concerned with issues relating to health disparities, diverse perspectives, identity, and inclusion.
- Education/Interprofessionalism: Proposals in this category focus on educational methodologies, pedagogy, and bridging knowledge between disciplines, including education in bioethics and the health humanities for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students as well as current professionals
- Health Humanities: Proposals in this category may relate to the arts, literature, history, culture, or other disciplines in the humanities.
- Law, Public Health Policy, and Organizational Ethics: Proposals in this category are related to the law, public health, organizational ethics, and other systemic issues.
- Philosophy: Proposals in this category primarily use a philosophical lens to analyze a broad array of issues in bioethics and the humanities, such as philosophical theory or the work of a specific philosopher.
- Religion: While proposals in this category may relate to the other topics, proposals in this category primarily focus on a religious framework in their analysis of a specific topic or engage religious theory and methodologies.
- Research Ethics and Social Sciences: Appropriate proposals in this category are of two different types. Research ethics proposals focus on ethical issues in the planning, conduct, or oversight of research, or on ethical issues in the responsibility of the conduct of research. Social science proposals use social science methodologies to investigate questions in a variety of topics related to bioethics and the health humanities. These methodologies include those of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology. Submitters should choose this category if the focus of their presentation will be the design, conduct, or results of social scientific work that does not fit more appropriately in other categories.