| 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. |
Graphic Medicine: A Three-Part Series
An Introduction to the Sequential Art of Illness
Thursday, February 9, 2012The past twenty years have witnessed an international explosion of graphic narratives on the themes of illness and health, with more being published each month. What unique insights and benefits can reading, and perhaps creating, these texts offer health care providers, patients, families, and friends? Gross, Gruesome, and Graphic: Representing Medicine’s Yuck Factor
Thursday, February 16, 2012This talk focuses on the idea of the “graphic” in our thinking about theoften-disturbing bodily content of medicine. What is graphic representation, and how does it connect to ideas about the visual, the explicit, to showing rather than telling--and to media that make us look at what may more comfortably be kept hidden? Graphic Medicine: Auto
biography as Auto-therapy
Thursday, February 23, 2012More info coming soon. | | |
