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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Fall 2009 Schedule
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09/24/09	Tod Chambers, PhD	Rites and Bioethics
10/01/09	Scott Moses, MD	Ritual in Medicine
10/08/09	Terri Kapsalis, PhD	Gynecology for Men
10/15/09	Mark Sheldon, PhD	The Forced Transfusion of Children of Jehovah's Witnesses .
10/22/09	Mark Sheldon, PhD	Children as Organ Donors
10/29/09	Mark Sheldon, PhD	In Defense of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Maybe Even Euthanasia
11/05/09	Judith Farquhar, PhD	Clinical Judgment East: How Chinese Doctors Think
11/12/09	Suzanne Poirier, PhD	The Embodied Physician: Physical and Emotional Vulnerability in Medical Education
11/19/09	Catherine Belling, PhD	Swimming in the Dark: Embodiment and Apprehension
11/26/09	No lecture (Thanksgiving)
12/3/09	Catherine Belling, PhD	Apprehending the Subcutaneous
12/10/09	Catherine Belling, PhD	The Postmodern Hypochondriac
Winter 2010 Schedule
1/7/10	Kristi Kirschner, MD	A Tale of Two (or More) Stories: Dissecting Medical Controversies About Disability
1/14/10	Kristi Kirschner, MD	Disability and Health Care: A Tale of Moving Targets
1/21/10	Kristi Kirschner, MD	“Lessons of the Chrysalis”: Reflections on The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
1/28/10	Mathew Pauley, JD	Embracing Conflict Resolution: Its Place within Bioethics, Medical Humanities, and Medical Education
2/4/10	No lecture. MA students will meet for writing workshop with Doug Reifler, MD.
2/11/10	No lecture. MA students will meet for writing workshop with Doug Reifler, MD.
2/18/10	No lecture. MA students will meet for writing workshop with Doug Reifler, MD.
2/25/10	Alice Dreger, PhD	The Sport of Sex: Competing with the Gender Division in Athletics
3/4/10	Alice Dreger, PhD	Rats and Other Humans: Why We Need More Chocolate Chips in Medicine
3/11/10	Alice Dreger, PhD	The Missing Ethical Principle: Following the Evidence
Spring 2010 Schedule
4/8/10	Katie Watson, JD	Gallows Humor: Medical Ethics, Medical Humanities, and the Dark Side of Laughter
4/15/10	Mathew Pauley, JD	The Promise of Bioethics Mediation: The Case for a Transformative Approach to Bioethics Mediation
4/22/10	Mathew Pauley, JD	The Ethics of Physician Negotiation: Casting a “Moral Anchor” — Medical Recommendations as First Offers
4/29/10	Michael Oldani, PhD	Who Owns the Psychiatric Narrative?: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the "Med-Check" Clinic
5/6/10	Jerome Lowenstein, MD	Henderson's Equation
5/13/10	Michael Oldani, PhD	Should Doctors Get Bonus Pay for Doing their Job?: Assessing the "Relative Value" of Patients Treated through Incentivized Models of Medical Compliance
5/20/10	Debjani Mukherjee, PhD	Crossing Cultures: Representing Brain Injury in Kolkata, India
5/27/10	Debjani Mukherjee, PhD	Crossing Cultures: Clinical Psychology and Clinical Ethics
6/3/10	Michael Oldani, PhD	TBA