When:
Thursday, January 21, 2016
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
Jenna K. Nikolaides, MD, MA
Medical Toxicology Fellow and Emergency Physician, Toxikon Consortium and Cook County Hospital
Alum, MD/MA in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Dual-Degree Program, Northwestern University
Withdrawal of Care in the Acute Intentional Overdose Patient
This talk will first provide a brief introduction into the world of medical toxicology and the unique type of consulting role toxicologists play through the Illinois Poison Center. The rest of the talk will focus on describing the various ethical issues that come into play when a suicidal patient who attempts to end their life by acute overdose or their surrogate decision-maker wants to refuse or withdraw care. The aim of the talk will be to highlight the ways in which a "goals of care" discussion in an acute overdose patient presents different ethical issues than a "goals of care" discussion for a chronically ill patient.
When:
Thursday, January 28, 2016
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 in Medical Education-Medical Humanities and Bioethics and Medicine-General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
Replacing God with Prozac
In this lecture, Tod Chambers will look at some of religious responses that have arisen with the rise of the class of psychiatric drugs collectively known as SSRIs. In particular, some religious faiths have become concerned that one of the unanticipated side effects of these medications is that they seem to relieve spiritual angst as well as the symptoms of OCD and depression.
When:
Thursday, February 4, 2016
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
The First Monster: Acknowledging Horror in the Anatomy Lab
What happens if we approach the anatomy cadaver not as an instrumentally dehumanized learning tool or as a sentimentally rehumanized “first patient,” but rather as something inescapably monstrous, to which horror is a legitimate and functional—and professional—response? This talk is part of a project examining the place in medicine of horror—both the emotional response and the text genres defined by efforts to generate that reponse. Medicine and horror share a great deal of common subject matter, and horror, even more than fear, may constitute an unspoken emotional subtext for much patient experience. Yet health care, reasonably, works hard to keep the horrific contained. One of the first ordeals all medical student must overcome tests their ability to approach the cadaver without showing (or even feeling) horror. I suggest that potential harm to students’ emerging professional identity may lie less in unempathic dehumanization of the cadaver, as is often averred, than in a defensive failure to acknowledge anatomy lab as an initiation into the horror—imagined, represented, and felt—that forms a significant subtext of real-world clinical practice.
When:
Thursday, February 11, 2016
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
John E Franklin, MD, MSc, MA
Associate Dean for Minority and Cultural Affairs
Professor in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical Education-Medical Humanities & Bioethics, and Surgery-Organ Transplantation
Beyond Microethics: Advanced Clinical Ethics and Mindfulness
The concept of Microethics; or, “the ethics of everyday clinical practice” has recently been excavated in the bioethics literature. In this talk, I will be discussing my concept of “advanced clinical ethics” which intends to probe more deeply into the rich texture of exemplary, everyday ethical patient care. We will examine the limits of rational thought in these interactions and discuss how mindfulness concepts might assist advanced clinical ethics.
When:
Thursday, February 18, 2016
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
Elisa J. Gordon, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor in Surgery-Organ Transplantation and Medical Education-Medical Humanities and Bioethics
A Culturally Targeted Website to Increase Hispanics’ Knowledge about Living Kidney Donation: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Ethnic/racial disparities pervade organ donation and transplantation. While several culturally sensitive interventions have effectively reduced transplant disparities, few have addressed disparities in Hispanics/Latinos. This lecture discusses the development and evaluation of a culturally sensitive, bilingual website targeted to Hispanics on knowledge about living kidney donation and transplantation. What makes the website culturally sensitive? How does website exposure influence transplant knowledge over time? The study’s next steps will be discussed in light of broader ethical concerns over interventions designed to promote living donation.