When:
Thursday, October 1, 2015
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Tod Chambers, PhD
Associate Professor
Medical Humanities & Bioethics and of Medicine
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Helping Patients Smoke: Pleasure and the Ends Of Medicine
This presentation examines the issue of the ends of medicine in relation to the traditional notion of health and a more radical notion of hedonism.
When:
Thursday, October 8, 2015
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Catherine Belling, PhD
Associate Professor
Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Morbid Curiosity: Horror in Medicine
The word “horror” is usually associated with sensationalism, irrationality, and gratuitous excess. While the content of horror stories and movies is very similar to the subject matter of medicine (e.g. bodily damage, disease, and abnormality; death and dying; gore), the discourses of medicine seem to work hard to keep horror contained, even repressed. This talk considers horror as an emotional and moral response as well as a genre and, taking as its groundwork the analysis of a PubMed search for the term “horror," explores health care's need both to resist and to represent the morbid realities that at once justify and disturb its work.
When:
Thursday, October 15, 2015
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Catherine Belling, PhD
Associate Professor
Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Going Under and Coming Round: Anesthesia's Challenge to Narration
One result of general anesthesia during surgery is that patients are spared the pain and horror of being sensate and awake during a procedure. Another is that patients experience a gap in time, a period of absence during which significant changes may be made to their bodies, to be discovered upon returning to consciousness. This talk considers the implications of this gap in the patient story, and the ways in which memory, sensibility, and trauma play out in models of anesthetized experience.
When:
Thursday, October 29, 2015
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Debjani Mukherjee, PhD
Associate Professor
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and
Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
On Being a Human Subject
The literature on research ethics has not fully addressed the meaning and experience of participating in a research project. In this talk, Professor Mukherjee will explore psychological factors that impact this experience including cognitive biases, motivations and the context of participating in a protocol.
When:
Thursday, November 5, 2015
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Carli Leone
Doctoral Student, English Department
Graduate Affiliate, MH&B Program
Northwestern University
Liberty, Literature, and the Language of Medical Ethics: Understanding Royall Tyler's Algerine Captive; Or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill
In the talk I presented this past spring, I positioned Benjamin Rush as the founding father of the Medical Humanities in the United States. I focused on how and why he incorporated literature into his medical texts and, in turn, how and why we should read his medical texts as literature. This talk will take Rush’s work one step further: I will use his texts on medical ethics towards the literary analysis of Royall Tyler’s novel, The Algerine Captive; Or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill (1797). With the help of Rush’s writings, I will re-examine the narrative arc of this seemingly disjointed and frequently overlooked novel.