When:
Thursday, March 1, 2018
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor, Searle Seminar room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program presents
A Montgomery Lecture
with
Catherine Belling, PhD
Associate Professor, Medical Education
Faculty, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program
Member, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Seven Ways of Looking at Frankenstein
2018 is the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, arguably the first sustained work of bioethics in literature. We will consider a few of the many ways in which the novel has come to influence the way we think about, and fear and desire, medical science and biotechnology.