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Lectures and Events

MH&B Lectures

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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Bresnahan Colloquium

colloquium: (ka lo' kwe um) 1. An informal meeting for the exchange of views. 2. An academic seminar ona broad field of study, usually led by a different person at each meeting. [Latin, conversation, from colloqui, to talk together...]

Named in honor of Professor Emeritus James F. Bresnahan

Rhetorics of Vaccination Refusal

with Bernice Hausman, Professor, Depts of English and Interprofessionalism, Virginia Tech

Friday, November 18 at noon

Four Hundred Years of Anatomical Flap Pages, 1543-1943

with Ron Sims, Special Collections Librarian, Galter Health Sciences Library, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Tuesday, November 29 at noon

PREVIOUS COLLOQUIA:

Disease, Dirt, Drugs and Dreams: Art and Medicine in Exhibitions at Wellcome Collection, London

with James Peto, Senior Curator of Public Programmes, Wellcome Trust, London
Monday, June 27, 2011


Football and Brains: The Painful Collision of Sports and Medicine on the Gridiron

with Jason Stallman, New York Times Editor
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Special Events

None scheduled at this time.

Past Special Events

Comics & Medicine: The Sequential Art of Illness

June 9–11, 2011
On Northwestern’s Chicago campus

Keynote Speakers:
Scott McCloud
David Small
Phoebe Gloeckner

Chicago Stories: Violence and the Ethics of Urban Health Care

A conference on Friday, September 25, 2009 that asked:

Violence is contagious—can medicine help find a cure?

Featuring panels, neighborhood storytellers and lectures by Oscar M. Ruebhausen Visiting Professor Alex Kotlowitz and Dorothy Roberts, JD
ASBH Spring 2009 Conference

Books to Bedside: Translational Work in Medical Humanities

April 23-25, 2009


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