| These lectures address topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building, during The Graduate School's Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters. Due to public interest, we've made these lectures open to all, inside and outside the Northwestern community. Please feel free to bring a lunch. |
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| Tod Chambers, PhD | Rites and Bioethics |  | | 10/01/09 | Scott Moses, MD | Ritual in Medicine |  | | 10/08/09 | Terri Kapsalis, PhD | Gynecology for Men |  | | 10/15/09 | Mark Sheldon, PhD | The Forced Transfusion of Children of Jehovah's Witnesses . |  | | 10/22/09 | Mark Sheldon, PhD | Children as Organ Donors |  | | 10/29/09 | Mark Sheldon, PhD | In Defense of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Maybe Even Euthanasia |  | | 11/05/09 | Judith Farquhar, PhD | Clinical Judgment East: How Chinese Doctors Think |  | | 11/12/09 | Suzanne Poirier, PhD | The Embodied Physician: Physical and Emotional Vulnerability in Medical Education |  | | 11/19/09 | Catherine Belling, PhD | Swimming in the Dark: Embodiment and Apprehension |  | | 11/26/09 | No lecture (Thanksgiving) | | | 12/3/09 | Catherine Belling, PhD | Apprehending the Subcutaneous |  | | 12/10/09 | Catherine Belling, PhD | The Postmodern Hypochondriac
|  | | | | | | | 1/7/10 | Kristi Kirschner, MD | A Tale of Two (or More) Stories: Dissecting Medical Controversies About Disability |  | | 1/14/10 | Kristi Kirschner, MD | Disability and Health Care: A Tale of Moving Targets |  | | 1/21/10 | Kristi Kirschner, MD | “Lessons of the Chrysalis”: Reflections on The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |  | | 1/28/10 | Mathew Pauley, JD | Embracing Conflict Resolution: Its Place within Bioethics, Medical Humanities, and Medical Education |  | | 2/4/10 | No lecture. MA students will meet for writing workshop with Doug Reifler, MD. | | 2/11/10 | No lecture. MA students will meet for writing workshop with Doug Reifler, MD. | | 2/18/10 | No lecture. MA students will meet for writing workshop with Doug Reifler, MD. | | 2/25/10 | Alice Dreger, PhD | The Sport of Sex: Competing with the Gender Division in Athletics | | | 3/4/10 | Alice Dreger, PhD | Rats and Other Humans: Why We Need More Chocolate Chips in Medicine | | | 3/11/10 | Alice Dreger, PhD | The Missing Ethical Principle: Following the Evidence | | | | | | | | Spring quarter lecture dates: 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27, 6/3
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★ There will be no lectures on February 4, 11, and 18. ★
. Thursday, February 25, 2010 The story of Caster Semenya, the South African runner whose sex has been called into question, raises many interesting questions not only about the proper role of physicians in sports, but also more generally in the social sphere. It also poses the problem of how to reconcile rules in sport governing atypical sex, transgenderism, and “therapeutic use exemptions” for exogenous testosterone, an otherwise banned substance. In this lecture, I will explore these issues. I will be drawing on my related essays for the New York Times and the Hastings Center, and drawing on my persistent annoyance as an intersex activist. Rats and Other Humans: Why We Need More Chocolate Chips in MedicineThursday, March 4, 2010 Institutions promoting medical ethics have tended to think globally, in the hopes that people will then act ethical locally. So, for example, various medical societies maintain Codes of Ethics, and ethicists spin off generalized theories and policies, in the hopes this will lead medical care providers to do the right thing in individual cases. In this lecture, I argue that we are failing to take medical care providers seriously as evolved mammals, beings prone to respond to the most immediate rewards and punishment. I will compare the behavior of my two pet rats, Treacle and Truffle, to specialist clinicians treating children with sex anomalies, to show why the inadequate provision of chocolate chips in medical ethics is resulting in a modern-day Tuskegee Syphilis Study. The Missing Ethical Principle: Following the EvidenceThursday, March 11, 2010 This rant is based on years of watching some medical care providers fail to look up, take seriously, and tell patients about the available clinical evidence for various conditions. Using one of the lowest forms of evidence—anecdotes—I will argue that the failure to take available clinical evidence more seriously represents a serious ethical failure in modern medicine. Without any actual data, I will speculate wildly on why this problem exists, and make the argument that the problem is so widespread and so harmful to patients that it is time we elevate consideration of clinical evidence to the status of a fifth formal ethical principle. |
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