| 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. |
| | |  | | Alice Domurat Dreger, PhD
Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Feinberg School of Medicine
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Eve Ensler, Hands Off My Vag!: A Philippic, with Pictures
Thursday, February 2, 2012This anecdote-filled paper constitutes a scholarly rant on the modern fashion of using the term 'vagina' in terribly messy ways. It's partly historical, partly philosophical, partly a work of literary criticism, and partly autobiographical, so it seems appropriate that it ends with a brief reflection on what the medical humanities could do for sex and for the medicine of sex. To see the pictures, you first have to listen to the talk. The pictures are definitely worth that, and are not autobiographical, except obliquely. | | |
