The launch of the Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit will take place online on 16 October. The tool designed to support the ethical decision-making of people using historical medical photographs, as broadly understood. At the heart of this toolkit is the idea that engaging with ethical considerations will enrich our scholarship and practice.
This toolkit is for everyone who encounters historical medical photographs in any capacity, including any researcher or visitor to archives and museums, as well as the wide range of GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Museums and Archives) professionals who care for and provide access to medical photography collections.
Join us for an afternoon discussing the toolkit, how to use it, and what's next for The Ethics of Medical Photography Network. The multidisciplinary network brings together historians, ethicists, archivists, heritage scholars, artists, photographers, social scientists, and the public, with the Wellcome Collection as project partner, to generate theoretical and practical resources to research, curate, and disseminate historical medical photographs in an ethical way. To balance the ethical needs of heritage institutions, researchers and the public, this network will move beyond the looking/ not looking dilemma [Moeller, 2009] to ask:
- how does our understanding of the ethics of medical photography, and of medical photography itself, change when we focus on race, disability, gender, class and age rather than consent, privacy and anonymity?
- how can we widen access to early medical photographs while respecting the dignity of both historical subjects and present viewers?
This network and the activities it organises have been funded by an AHRC Research Networking Award.
You can join the Network mailing list here and Check out our website
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