| 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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| 9/21 | Katie Watson, JD | The Language of Abortion: Why Abortion
Is So Hard to Talk About |
| | 9/28 | Katie Watson, JD | The Ethics of Abortion: Later Term Abortions and the Moral Status of the Fetus | | 10/5 | Katie Watson, JD | The Practice of Abortion: Ethics Consultation in Individual Abortion Cases
| | | 10/12 | Lisa Campo-Engelstein, PhD | Insurance Coverage for Iatrogenic Conditions Resulting from Cancer Treatment: Why Fertility Preservation Treatment Should Not Be Treated Differently
. | | | 10/19 | NO LECTURE | (FACULTY AT ASBH ANNUAL MTG) | | | 10/26 | Paula Summerly, PhD | Nineteenth-Century Clinical Photography: A Contextual Approach |
| | 11/2 | Elisa Gordon, PhD, MPH | Education & Culturally Competent Care in Transplantation: Implications for Quality Improvement | | | 11/9 | Elisa Gordon, PhD, MPH | Reducing Ethnic Disparities in Organ Donation through a Culturally Competent Transplant Program | | | 11/16 | Rebecca Brashler, LCSW | Googling Patients | | | 11/23 | Rebecca Brashler, LCSW | Distributive Justice and Daily Clinical Decision-Making |
| | 11/30 | Joel Frader, MD MA | May Health Care Professionals "Conscientiously" Refuse to Discuss Requested Care to Which They Have Religious or Moral Objections? | | | 12/7 | Joel Frader, MD MA | Adolescent Parents of Critically Ill Infants: Should We Let Them Make End-of-life Decisions? | | | | | | | | 1/4 | Mark Waymack, PhD | Confronting Dementia | | | 1/11 | Mark Waymack, PhD | The Failure of Health Care Reform | | | 1/18 | Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD | My Mother, My Kidney?: “Bioavailability,” Culture and Living Organ Donation in Mexico | | | 1/25 | Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD | Brain Death as/in a Slippery State: “Biounavailability,” Culture and Cadaveric Organ Donation in Mexico |
| | 2/1 | Laurie Zoloth, PhD | The Ethics of This Actual World: Synthetic Biology | | | 2/8 | Laurie Zoloth, PhD | The Ethics of This Actual World: AIDS Research | | | 2/15 | Laurie Zoloth, PhD | The Ethics of This Actual World: Nanotechnology | | | 2/22 | Sarah Rodriguez, PhD | Watching the Watch-Glass: Miriam Menkin, the First Human IVF, and One Woman’s Work in Reproductive Science, 1938-1952 | | | 3/1 | Vinh-Kim Nguyen, MD, PhD | The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS | | | 3/8 | Zachary M. Schrag, PhD | Blunder at Belmont: The 1970s Origins of IRB Mission Creep | | | | | | | | 4/5 | Kathryn Montgomery, PhD | Knowing in Medicine: Case-Based Reasoning | | | 4/12 | Kathryn Montgomery, PhD | Knowing in Medicine: Aphorism and Paradox in Clinical Reasoning | | | 4/19 | Kathryn Montgomery, PhD | Knowing in Medicine: Clinical Judgment in Evidence-Based Practice | | | 4/26 | Megan Czarniecki, MS, MA | Expanded Newborn Screening: The Role of Parent Activists | | | 5/3 | Megan Czarniecki, MS, MA | Expanded Newborn Screening: The Technological Imperative | | | 5/10 | Teresa Savage, PhD RN | Ethical Issues in Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities | | | 5/17 | Teresa Savage, PhD RN | Ethical Issues in Neonatal Care | | | 5/24 | Paula Summerly, PhD | Photographing Pediatrics: Northwestern University’s Outpatient Clinics, Circa 1900-1940 | | | 5/31 | Paula Summerly, PhD | Photographing the Patient: Toward a Century of Anonymity? | | |
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Graduate Student
British Studies Cluster
Northwestern University
Graduate Affiliate
Medical Humanities & Bioethics |
From Sir William Osler to Atul Gawande: Revisiting the 'Fixed Period' Controversy
Thursday, May 17, 2012At age 55, Osler gave a controversial farewell speech at Johns Hopkins University, in which he asserted “the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work” at the age of 60. (The controversy arose from his suggestion that such men retire “for a year of contemplation before a peaceful departure by chloroform”—a forced-euthanasia scheme described in the 1882 science fiction novel, “The Fixed Period”). In Gawande's recent article for The New Yorker, he worries that he has reached his "professional peak" at 47, and recommends coaching as a way of improving skills in later years. This talk compares the two pieces and explores some persistent notions about age, productivity, and professional identity. |
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