| 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. |
.  | | Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Anthropology
VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion
University of Pittsburgh
Visiting Faculty, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
The University of Chicago |
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Thursday, April 2, 2009 This talk will explore how living organ donors -- who are, by definition, the healthy side of the donor/recipient pair -- may often fail to fully register as "real" patients. Drawing on ethnographic data, we will explore the consequential ways in which donors may emerge as "not-quite patients" during three specific moments in the donation process, and then consider the conceptual and ethical difficulties this produces. Ultimately, examining this uneasy status which living donors as not-quite patients seem to inhabit also raises a larger theoretical question about medicalization and what happens when the medical gaze, so to speak, averts its eyes.
. Dr. Crowley-Matoka also presented the MH&B Special Topics lecture "This Hurts Me More than It Hurts You?: Conflict, Catastrophizing and Counter-transference in Pain Management" on May 14, 2009. | | |
