| These lectures address 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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Thursday, February 28 What might physicians have in common with the police? This lecture will draw analogies between two professions critical to our nation's well being in order to explore the use and abuse of power, money, and boundaries in medicine. This lecture will also argue that an expansion of bioethicists' gaze to themes of systems (both institutional/structural and cultural/cognitive) and cognitive dissonance would be of great benefit to patients. .
Thursday, March 6 How would patients benefit if bioethicists expanded their gaze to systems (both institutional/structural and cultural/cognitive)? What role does cognitive dissonance play in system dysfunction, and how could bioethicists contribute to its reduction? The first lecture of this series considered what physicians might have in common with the police. This lecture will continue the exploration of power, money, and boundaries in medicine by using the treatment of mental illness as one case example. | | |
