The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program presents
A Montgomery Lecture
with
Kathy Johnson Neely, MD, MA
Medical Director, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Medical Ethics Program
Attending Physician, Palliative Medicine
Northwestern Medicine, Central Region
Associate Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Disgust and the Moral Community of Medicine
As one of the “moral emotions,” disgust has evolved from primitive responses to “poisons and parasites” and has been exapted to build cooperative, cohesive social groups of Us and at the same time distancing from Them. Can disgust be a useful moral emotion in supporting the Moral Community of medical practice?
Kathy Johnson Neely, MD, MA
Medical Director, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Medical Ethics Program
Attending Physician, Palliative Medicine
Northwestern Medicine, Central Region
Associate Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine