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In Sickness & In Health: Challenging Health Inequity (CfP, Conference, Palma de Mallorca, June 2015)

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Conference Summary: In Sickness & In Health

Event Type: Sixth International Conference on Health Inequity
Dates & Location: June 10-12, 2015, University of Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Primary Focus: Challenging health inequities through critical analysis of social determinants, ethics, power, and healthcare practice
Disciplinary Scope: Nursing, medicine, physiotherapy, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, geography, communication, and allied health fields
Presentation Formats: Individual oral presentations (20 minutes + 10 min discussion) or group presentations (4 speakers on common theme)
Key Themes: Critical empirical analyses of health inequities; theoretical proposals for change; methodological approaches to interrogating glocal phenomena
Conference History: Sixth in series (Melbourne 2002, Reykjavik 2004, Victoria 2009, Odense 2011, preceding current iteration)
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 15, 2014
Theoretical Framework: Foucauldian analysis of problematization—examining discursive practices that constitute health inequity as object of knowledge and action

In Sickness & In Health
Sixth International Conference Challenging Health Inequity: A Call to Action
June 10-12, 2015
University of Balearic Islands
Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Our collective work In Sickness and in Health explores problems encountered by people working within a range of health care fields as well as those people who enter the field of health care seeking care and respite. As such we follow Foucault’s writings on problematization, the set of discursive or nondiscursive practices that make something enter into the play of the true and false, constituting it as an object for thought – whether in the form of moral reflection, scientific knowledge or political analysis.We have organized four international conferences entitled “In Sickness and Health,” focusing on issues of ethics, power and practice. Our first conference was held at the University of Melbourne in 2002. We re-convened at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik in 2004. The third “In Sickness and in Health” conference was held in 2009 in Victoria on Canada’s west coast and the fourth conference was held in Odense, Denmark in 2011.

You are invited to participate in the 6th ISIH International Conference. We welcome two types of presentations: Individual oral presentation (this is a 20 minute presentation with an additional 10 minutes for discussion) or Group oral presentation (this is a group of 4 presentations exploring a common issue).

The conference explores broad themes such as:

  • Critical analyses of empirical data which examine the social determinants of health or health care situations that (re)produce inequities;
  • Theoretical or empirical proposals to challenge, change, or raise awareness regarding inequities;
  • Methodological or theoretical approaches to critical inquiry and innovative ways to interrogate glocal phenomena

The conference will include plenary speakers and concurrent sessions. Researchers, scholars, advocates, and students from diverse fields such as nursing, medicine, physiotherapy, allied health care, sociology, anthropology, economy, communication and media studies, history, philosophy, and geography are invited to submit abstracts and attend.

Submission deadline for abstracts is November 15, 2014. Full details on submitting abstracts is available from the conference web site.

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