| 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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09/24/09
| 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
| | | Winter quarter lecture dates:
1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/4, 3/11
| 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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. "Apprehension" means both cognitive grasp ("to apprehend x") and fearful anticipation ("to be apprehensive about x"). These three lectures will consider the inaccessibility of the body (we can't see inside it; we can't see the microscopic creatures that inhabit it), and our ways of imagining and representing the bodily things we worry about because we cannot watch them closely. Biomedical science has given us technologies for looking at internal organs and microscopic pathogens; here we will explore the role of narrative as another kind of medical technology, one that should collaborate with medicine to better apprehend our bodies and the scary things that may or may not be happening inside them.
. Thursday, November 19, 2009 What does it mean that we have limited perceptual and cognitive access to what is most intimate to us, the inside of our bodies? This lecture considers the limitations of the visual and the advantages of narrative in imagining and representing the experience of anxious embodiment. Apprehending the SubcutaneousThursday, December 3, 2009 This lecture compares filmed and written fictions set inside the body with the access offered by medical imaging technology. What can stories contribute to medicine's efforts at illuminating our insides? The Postmodern HypochondriacThursday, December 10, 2009 This lecture considers the hypochondriac as a figure of contemporary medical anxiety. Looking at film clips, memoirs, and online blog entries, we will think about the implications of this figure, usually seen either as ridiculous or annoying, for how medicine handles its own uncertainties and fears. |
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