| 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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| | Laurie Zoloth, PhD
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Professor of Medical Humanities & Bioethics
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Director of Center for Bioethics, Science and Society |
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Ethicists consider justice to be the primary virtue of societies, and truth to be the primary virtue of thought itself. A promise to tell the truth, to seek the truth and to face the truth is at the core of the scientific method. Moreover, we base the medical encounter on the need for full and informed consent. It seems straightforward to expect truth from our political and academic leaders. Yet the persistent discovery of duplicity, scientific fraud, and lying in the medical encounter tell a different story: why is simply telling the truth so hard? This lecture will review classic arguments in philosophy, religion, and social theory in light of the temptations to lie. | | |
