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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD
Associate Professor, Medical Education; Anthropology
Director, Medical Humanities and Bioethics MA Program
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Making (Cultural) Sense of Living Kidney Donation

Living organ donation depends upon harming one person to help another. Both routine and extraordinary, living donation is made possible not just by surgical technique and medical expertise, but by the moral arguments and cultural framings that render it acceptable.  Yet the particular arguments and framings that make it so are not everywhere the same.  What makes a living donor ideal in one setting may seem problematic – even unethical – in another.  Drawing on comparative ethnographic research, this talk explores how living donation is made culturally commonsensical in Mexico in order to re-frame some of the taken-for-granted assumptions that underlie living donation here in the U.S.

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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