| 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. |
| by | | Kathryn Montgomery, PhD
Professor of Medical Humanities & Bioethics and of Medicine
Director, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program |
Thursday, September 25, 2008
This lecture describes narrative as the basis for knowledge in medical practice and argues that it is essential to the diagnostician's analogic, retrospective reasoning.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Medicine's own philosophy of medicine relies on aphorisms to turn its science students into clinical reasoners. This lecture investigates these important, but often contradictory, statements of "truth." Thursday, October 9, 2008 Evidence-based medicine has been described as a death blow to the medical humanities and to psychosocial medicine. This lecture argues that evidence-based medicine is—at most—simply another tool for clinical decision making, and one that may free physicians from the assumption that medicine itself is a science. | | |
