When:
Thursday, October 27, 2016
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room (Ground Floor), 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Catherine M. Wallace, PhD
Lecturer, Medical Education
Faculty, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program
Member, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Miracles, Cures, and Magic
How should physicians respond to patients who pray for miracles? Knowing how "miracles" function symbolically in Christian scriptures is an essential cultural competency that can help patients and families in crisis.
Catherine M. Wallace, PhD is the author of Confronting Religious Denial of Science: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination.