The Consolation of Horror: A Hidden Opportunity in the Hidden Curriculum - Catherine Belling
When:
Thursday, October 31, 2019
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor/Searle Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: FREE
Contact:
Myria Knox
(312) 503-7962
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings, Grand Rounds
Description:
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Catherine Belling, PhD
Associate Professor of Medical Education
Center for Bioethics & Medical Humanities
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
The Consolation of Horror:
A Hidden Opportunity in the Hidden Curriculum
"Horror" is a genre (e.g. horror movies) and before that an affect (the reaction horror movies try to provoke). The experience of medicine, for professionals, for patients, and for the public, often means encountering the same things that horrify movie audiences, but in a different context. How does medicine represent horror and its unruly objects? I'll suggest that explicit attention to horror in medicine might generate some surprising sources of compassion and resilience.