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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Beginning this year, we are recording these lectures and making them available online. These recordings are playable in iTunes and include the presentation slides in sync with the audio. More information is available here.

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Schedule for 2008-2009
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09/25/08	Kathryn Montgomery, PhD	Knowing in Medicine: Case-Based Reasoning
10/02/08	Kathryn Montgomery, PhD	Knowing in Medicine: Aphorism and Paradox in Clinical Reasoning
10/09/08	Kathryn Montgomery, PhD	Knowing in Medicine: Clinical Judgment in Evidence-Based Practice
10/16/08	Dr. Stefan Dresske University of Kassel - Germany .	The Unbound Body, Disgust and the Norms of the Good Dying
10/23/08	Rebecca Brashler, LCSW	Advance Directives: What are They Good For?
10/30/08	Rebecca Brashler, LCSW	Decisional Capacity: I Know It When I See It
11/06/08	Rebecca Brashler, LCSW	The Role of the Family in Health Care
11/13/08	No lecture (MA students meeting with Ms. Brashler)
11/20/08	Alice Dreger, PhD	Sex and Social Justice: Three Cases Involving Children
11/27/08	Thanksgiving - No lecture
12/4/08	Lecture cancelled
Winter break
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01/08/09	Teresa Savage, PhD, RN	Ethical Issues in Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities
01/15/09	Teresa Savage, PhD, RN	Ethical Issues in Research with Children
01/22/09	Teresa Savage, PhD, RN	Ethical Issues in Neonatal Care
01/29/09	Laurie Zoloth, PhD	The Ethics of Translational  Stem Cell Research: Medical Tourism, Internet Promises, and the Role of Science Self Governance
02/05/09	Laurie Zoloth, PhD	Come Hungry; Leave Happy: Science and Religion in the Obesity Epidemic
02/12/09	Laurie Zoloth, PhD	Why Does the National Academy of Science Care about Chimeric Mice?: The Religion vs. Science Debates
02/19/09	No lecture (MA students meeting with Dr. Zoloth)
02/26/09	Tod Chambers, PhD	How to Lie, Cheat, and Steal When Doing Biomedical Research
03/05/09	Katie Watson, JD	Art and Obligation: Should Fictional Doctors Practice Good Medicine?
03/12/09	Jonathan M. Adler	Talking About the Talking Cure: Psychotherapy Narratives & Mental Health
03/19/09	Rick Kittles, PhD University of Chicago	Race, Racism and Racialization in the DNA Era
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Spring Break
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04/02/09	Megan Crowley, PhD University of Pittsburgh	The Patient Who Is Not?: Conceptual and Ethical Quandaries in Living Organ Donation
04/09/09	Dr. Stefan Dresske University of Kassel - Germany	Medical Treatment as Status-Passage: Observational Studies in a Spinal Cord Unit
04/16/09	No lecture (Doug Reifler, MD leading MA students in writing workshop)
04/23/09	James L. Nelson, PhD Michigan State University	Great Violinists, Trolley Cars, and Shallow Ponds: Can Weird Hypotheticals Help in Bioethics?
04/30/09	No lecture (Doug Reifler, MD leading MA students in writing workshop)
05/07/09	No lecture (Doug Reifler, MD leading MA students in writing workshop)
05/14/09	Megan Crowley, PhD University of Pittsburgh	This Hurts Me More than It Hurts You?: Conflict, Catastrophizing and Counter-transference in Pain Management
05/21/09	Catherine Belling, PhD	How Worried should People Be?: Hypochondria, Cancer, and Swine Flu
05/28/09	Tod Chambers, PhD, Catherine Belling, PhD, and Doug Reifler, MD	Medicine Studies: Whither or Why Not?
06/04/09	No lecture (end-of-year meeting restricted to MA students)