Disability and Health Justice
An intensive one-credit microseminar offered online in spring 2024. Students should be prepared to begin work for this class on 3/18; the course content will be presented through 3/29, and the final presentation will be due by 4/5.
BETH 605-02 / PHIL 505-04 / PHIL 605-04
| Instructor: | Vilde Lid Aavitsland, PhD (she/her) |
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| Email: | vilde.aavitsland@louisville.edu |
| Date, time, and location | Distance Education/asynchronous. Conducted over two weeks, Monday, March 18 to Sunday March 31, plus a third week for preparing a final presentation on your own. |
This is a 1 credit-hour online micro-seminar. This class will focus on disability and health justice. We will ask questions such: What would it mean to place disability at the basis of justice? How does disability challenge common conceptions of normality, health, illness, and cure? What are the ethics of genetic testing and selective abortion? What would disability health justice entail?
SESSION SCHEDULE
MODULE 1: DISABILITY AND CONCEPTIONS OF NORMALITY, HEALTH, PAIN, AND CURE
| By 3/19 | Read the texts, listen to the online lectures, post to discussion board, and respond to other students' posts. |
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MODULE 2: DISABILITY IN HEALTH CARE EDUCATION
with guest speaker Dr. Emily Noonan, University of Louisville School of Medicine
| By 3/22 | Read the texts, listen to online lectures, post to discussion board, respond to other students' posts |
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MODULE 3: CONSERVATION, ENHANCEMENT, AND GENETIC INTERVENTION
| By 3/26 | Read the texts, listen to the online lectures, post to discussion board, and respond to other students' posts |
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MODULE 4: DISABILITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
with guest speaker Dr. Inger Marie Lid, Vid Specialized University
| By 3/29 | Read the texts, listen to the online lectures, post to discussion board, and respond to other students' posts |
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MODULE 5: FINAL PRESENTATION
By Friday, 4/5 |
Prepare final presentation on a topic of your own choosing in disability and health justice |
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| By Sun 4/7 | View and respond to other students' presentations |
photo credit: Peg Hunter
