| These lectures address diverse 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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| 9/22 | Catherine Belling, PhD | Modern Medicine and the Postmodern Hypochondriac |
| | 9/29 | Catherine Belling, PhD | Plotless Stories and Poor Historians: Telling Hypochondriacal Narratives | | | 10/6 | Catherine Belling, PhD | The Problem of Irony: Reading the Dying Hypochondriac | | | 10/13 | NO LECTURE | | | 10/20 | Sarah Rodriguez, PhD | The Errant Organ: Female Sexuality, the Clitoris, and the Medical Indications for Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the US | | | 10/27 | Sarah Rodriguez, PhD | Women are Made Wrong, But One Gynecologist Sought to Make them Right: James Burt and the Past, and Present, of Surgeries ‘Down There’ |
| | 11/3 | Suzanne Poirier, PhD | Medical Education and the Emotional Development of the Physician | | | 11/10 | Suzanne Poirier, PhD | The Embodied Physician | | | 11/17 | Tom Buller, PhD | Autonomy, Externality and Neuroprosthetics | | | 11/24 | NO LECTURE |
| | 12/1 | Debjani Mukherjee, PhD | Beyond the Medical/Social Dichotomy: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) | | | 12/8 | Debjani Mukherjee, PhD | Adjustment to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Kolkata, India | | | | 1/5 | Kristi Kirschner, MD | A Tale of Two (or More) Stories: Dissecting Medical Controversies About Disability | | | 1/12 | Kristi Kirschner, MD | Disability and Health Care: A Tale of Moving Targets | | | 1/19 | Tod Chambers, PhD | Witches, Mods, & Bioethicists | | | 1/26 | Katie Watson, JD | Art and Obligation: Should Fictional Doctors Practice Good Medicine? |
| | 2/2 | Alice Dreger, PhD | Eve Ensler, Hands Off My Vag!: A Philippic, with Pictures | | | 2/9 | MK Czerwiec, RN MA | Graphic Medicine: An Introduction to the Sequential Art of Illness | | | 2/16 | Catherine Belling, PhD | Gross, Gruesome, and Graphic: Representing Medicine’s Yuck Factor (Graphic Medicine Part II) | | | 2/23 | Ian Williams, MA MB BCh MRGCP DA CAS | Graphic Medicine: Autobiography as Auto-therapy | | | 3/1 | Mark Sheldon, PhD
| The Forced Transfusion of Children of Jehovah's Witnesses | | | 3/8 | Mark Sheldon, PhD | Children as Organ Donors | | | 3/15 | Mark Sheldon, PhD | In Defense of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Maybe Even Euthanasia | | | | 4/5 | No lecture. We will be attending a reading of Pound of Flesh, a new play by Katie Watson. | | | 4/12 | Adrienne Asch, PhD MS
| Disability Rights Without Disability Identity | | | 4/19 | Paul Vasey, PhD | Is Separation Anxiety in Feminine Boys Pathological or Socially Beneficial?: Cross-cultural Insights from Canada and Samoa | | | 4/26 | Alice Dreger, PhD | Feminist Bio-Philia | | | 5/3 | Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD | When the Medical Gaze Averts Its Eyes: Living Organ Donors as Non-Patients | | | 5/10 | Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD | When the Medical Gaze Never Wanes: Organ Transplant Recipients as Perpetual Patients | | | 5/17 | Anna Fenton-Hathaway
| From Sir William Osler to Atul Gawande: Revisiting the 'Fixed Period' Controversy | | | 5/24 | Robert D. Johnston, PhD | The Current Intellectual Politics of Vaccination in Historical Perspective | | | 5/31 | Steven Epstein, PhD | Sexual Health as Buzzword: Competing Stakes and Proliferating Agendas | | |
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Graduate Student
British Studies Cluster
Northwestern University
Graduate Affiliate
Medical Humanities & Bioethics |
From Sir William Osler to Atul Gawande: Revisiting the 'Fixed Period' Controversy
Thursday, May 17, 2012At age 55, Osler gave a controversial farewell speech at Johns Hopkins University, in which he asserted “the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work” at the age of 60. (The controversy arose from his suggestion that such men retire “for a year of contemplation before a peaceful departure by chloroform”—a forced-euthanasia scheme described in the 1882 science fiction novel, “The Fixed Period”). In Gawande's recent article for The New Yorker, he worries that he has reached his "professional peak" at 47, and recommends coaching as a way of improving skills in later years. This talk compares the two pieces and explores some persistent notions about age, productivity, and professional identity. |
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