| 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, May 21, 2009 Is there a moral imperative to worry about disease? A public health imperative? How do public discourses find a secure point on the continuum from complacency to despair, a level of "preparedness" or "awareness" where effective action is provoked but panic forestalled? How do anxieties, private and public, emerge from our inability to tell when disease begins? Is it possible to triage fear? | | |
