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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Debjani Mukherjee, PhD, HEC-C
Interim Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in
Clinical Medicine and Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College

Associate Clinical Ethicist
New York Presbyterian
Weill Cornell Medical Center

Clinical Ethics Consultation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

As the one-year anniversary of the COVID pandemic approaches, each of us continue to deal with it personally and professionally. In this work in progress, I will explore how the practice of ethics consultation in a large urban academic medical center was impacted. As clinical ethicists were facing dynamic circumstances, evolving understanding of the disease process, and unprecedented resource scarcities, their roles expanded and were also limited. What can we learn? I will draw on my experience as a psychologist and clinical ethics consultant with over 20 years of experience who moved to New York City about six weeks before the COVID-19 surge hit the region.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

John Franklin MD, MSc, MA
Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavorial Science
Professor of Psychiatry, Transplant Surgery, Medical Education/Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Student Support
Chief and Fellowship Training Director for Addiction Psychiatry

Am I Real or Am I Memorex?: Assumptions of Conscious
Minds in Medicine

Care in medicine is fundamentally predicated on an assumption that we and our patients are conscious minds.  Why is this important and why have we come to this conclusion? This talk will highlight some enduring conundrums and approaches to the mysteries of consciousness.  This talk will also attempt to relate some of these concepts to the stories we tell about our patients, and ourselves in the exam room. 

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Susan Reverby, PhD
Marion Butler McLean Professor Emerita in the History of Ideas
Professor Emerita of Women's and Gender Studies
Wellesley College
Wellesley, Massachusetts
 
Nancy Tomes, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor of History
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York
 
Sarah Rodriguez, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Global Health Studies, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Lecturer, Medical Education, Feinberg School of Medicine
Faculty, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the 
Limits of Medical Regulation

Please join historians Susan Reverby (Wellesley College) and Nancy Tomes (Stony Brook University) for a conversation with Sarah Rodriguez on her new book, The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation, and the history of American health care and medical ethics. The Love Surgeon tells a story about Ohio OBGYN James Burt, who believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, Burt developed what he called “love surgery,” a unique procedure he maintained enhanced the sexual responses of a new mother, transforming her into “a horny little house mouse.” Burt performed "love surgery" without getting the consent of his patients, yet he was allowed to practice for over thirty years, harming hundreds of women. Though it would be easy to dismiss Burt as a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein, as Rodriguez reveals, that’s not the whole story. The Love Surgeon is both a medical horror story and a cautionary tale about the limits of professional self-regulation. 

A preview of The Love Surgeon is available here and an electronic version is available through the Northwestern University Library.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

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A Montgomery Lecture

With

George Freigeh, MD, MA
Pediatrics House Officer, PGY-2 
Michigan Medicine

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Making the Ethical Physician

It is a foregone conclusion that medical ethics in some form should be part of contemporary medical education. The question remains, however, in how medical ethics should be taught to physicians in training. This talk will explore the history of ethics instruction in medical education as well as highlight some of the literature regarding current trends in medical school and residency training. 

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Margaret Carlyle, PhD
Assistant Professor of History of Science and Technology
University of British Columbia
Canada

Brian Callender, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Faculty, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Core Faculty, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
University of Chicago

The Fetus in Utero: From Mystery to Social Media 

This lecture will explore a history of fetal imagery and contextualize that within contemporary debates about reproductive rights and the ubiquity of the fetal ultrasound.

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