Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Ricardo T. Rosenkranz, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Pediatrics/Community-Based Primary Care
Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine

Belief Engineering:
How is Belief Created, Reflections from the Performing Arts World 

Every time we experience a play, a song, a musical, a novel, or even a magic show, our beliefs are shaped by the performers, composers, and authors. In this session we will explore how theatrical magicians understand belief and how their best practices might inform the medical profession. Artists are experts at building trust, how do they do it?

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Jacob Nieb MD, MA 
Anesthesiology Resident
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

The Poetic Experience of Anesthesia

One of the reasons I chose to become an anesthesiologist is the intimate and transient nature of anesthetic encounters. I meet people at vulnerable and transitional times in their lives with the goal of seeing them through these moments safely, easing their anxiety and pain, and often rendering them unconscious. But what does this disruption of consciousness do? How do patients and anesthesia providers approach this short-lived relationship? Through close readings of poetry by patients about their experiences with anesthesia and by anesthesiologists about their practice, this talk will explore how our constructions of selfhood may (or may not) be violated by anesthetics, the narrative work of poetry in understanding and reconciling ourselves before and after anesthesia, and consider what truly informed consent to anesthesia requires.

McGaw Pavilion, 1st floor - room 1-401, 240 E. Huron, Chicago, IL 60611 

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in McGaw Pavilion, 450 East Huron, first floor, room 1-401, Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Michael Certo, MD, MA, MM
Attending Physician,
Pediatric Palliative Care and Critical Care Medicine
Ethics Consultant & Advisory Board Member
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Songs on the Death of Children: A Case Study in Music as Narrative Medicine

Acts and events constituting music vary widely in form and function, but music itself is a nearly universal behavior and experience. Music communicates and translates elements of human experience that defy linguistic description and is therefore uniquely poised to deepen the experience of absorbing, interpreting, and being moved by stories of illness, death, and dying. And yet, despite a broad expansion of scholarship within the arts and humanities, music remains an underexplored discipline with respect to narrative medicine. This talk will demonstrate the remarkable potential of music as a powerful medium for exploring stories of illness, death, and dying, and offer a method for engaging with music as narrative medicine using Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder [Songs on the Death of Children] as an exemplar. 

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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