| 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. |
| | |  | | Debjani Mukherjee, PhD
Assistant Professor
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Feinberg School of Medicine
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Ethical Issues in Traumatic Brain InjuryBeyond the Medical/Social Dichotomy:
Traumatic Brain Injury
Thursday, December 1, 2011The medical and social models of disability draw upon different sets of facts, values and interpretations. TBI Illustrates how the dichotomy between these two models limits a comprehensive understanding of a complex phenomenon. Ethical issues such as pre- and post-injury selves and interests as well as biases and stigma associated with cognitive disability will be explored. Adjustment to
Traumatic Brain Injury in Kolkata, India
Thursday, December 8, 2011
TBI is an international public health problem that has become a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. While the biological damage to the brain may be similar around the world, the responses of health care systems, individuals, families and communities can vary dramatically. In this lecture, ethnographic work in Kolkata, India, informs concepts of life satisfaction and community integration; ethical issues from the first lecture will be revisited. | | |
