Crip Poetry and Performing the Principles of Medical Ethics

Disability scholar and writer Jim Ferris presents a provocative perspective on how to enact autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.  He’ll discuss how the characteristics of “crip poetry”–written by and about bodies labeled “abnormal”–align with the principles of medical ethics, showing health-care professionals how essential it is to challenge stereotypes, foreground atypical perspectives, and emphasize embodiment by being aware of the centrality of the body in all our lives.

This event is a hybrid event. Attendees may join in person at the Research Administration Building or virtually via Zoom.

Background Readings

• Poems by Jim Ferris: From the Surgeons: Drs. Sofield, Louis, Hark, Alfini, Millar, Baehr, Bevan-Thomas, Tsatsos, Ericson, and Bennan & Why Crip Poetry
• Ferris. (2006). Crip Poetry, or How I Learned to Love the Limp. Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, 1(2), Essays.