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Miracles, Cures, and Magic - Catherine M. Wallace

Thursday, October 27, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room (Ground Floor), 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

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.

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  • Public
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

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