| 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 | TBA | TBA | | | 3/8 | TBA | TBA | | | 3/15 | TBA | TBA | | | | 4/5 | TBA | TBA | | | 4/12 | TBA | TBA | | | 4/19 | Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD | TBA | | | 4/26 | Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD | TBA | | | 5/3 | Alice Dreger, PhD | TBA | | | 5/10 | Alice Dreger, PhD | TBA | | | 5/17 | Tod Chambers, PhD | TBA | | | 5/24 | Tod Chambers, PhD | TBA | | | 5/31 | Tod Chambers, PhD | TBA | | |
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Graphic Medicine: A Three-Part SeriesAn 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. |
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