| 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. |
| | |  | | Kristi L. Kirschner, MD
Professor of Medical Humanities & Bioethics and of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Feinberg School of Medicine
|
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Who gets to frame the story? What stakeholder perspectives are relevant? Disability ethics engages narrative and feminist ethics to critique ethical issues involving people with disabilities. This presentation will use some classic stories involving people with disabilities to illustrate the value of this approach. Disability and Health Care: A Tale of Moving Targets
Thursday, January 12, 2012
The landscape of disability is constantly changing as a result of new medical technologies as well as social and environmental fluxes. This dynamic situation poses particular challenges for health-care professionals who struggle to provide accurate medical and prognostic information to patients and family members. Quality of life considerations also are increasingly important as survival is assured, yet can be the thorniest to discuss and predict. What are the implications for health care professionals, patients and families as they grapple with medical decisions? | | |
