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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Susan Duyar, MD, MA
Resident Physician, Department of OB/GYN
Alum, Dual-Degree MD/MA in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center

Misestimating Frozen Eggs

Over the last decade oocyte vitrification, or egg freezing, has developed as a way of fertility preservation for women who are unable or unwilling to create and freeze embryos. While this technology was largely driven by the need for better ways to preserve fertility in young cancer patients, a large and thriving market for egg freezing has arisen in women who wish to delay childbearing for non-medical purposes, or “planned oocyte cryopreservation”. However, its rising popularity in this population has raised a host of problems, particularly in the way that it has been advertised to women.  In this talk we will briefly review oocyte cryopreservation, including its risks, benefits, and costs. We will discuss the historical development of planned oocyte cryopreservation and highlight some of the inherent flaws in how it has come be. Finally, we will delve into some of the coercive advertising frameworks that are used to promote planned oocyte cryopreservation and which shapes both the public discourse on the technology and private decision making by women who may consider using this technology.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Brian Callender, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Faculty, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Core Faculty, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
University of Chicago

Graphic Medicine:  The Experience of Illness and Patient Education

This talk will explore how the medium of comics is particularly adept at conveying the illness experience and how comics are used in patient education.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Lisa Olstein, MFA
Professor
University of Texas at Austin

Pain Studies: A Reading & Conversation

Author Lisa Olstein, discusses her recent book, an extended lyric essay exploring the intersection of pain, perception and language through the prism of her lifelong experience with migraine to deliver a marvelously idiosyncratic cultural history of pain—how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Annalese Duprey, PhD (English, Northwestern University)
Former Feinberg School of Medicine Medical Humanities and Bioethics Affiliate

The Romance of Silence: 
A Medieval Perspective on Gender and Suffering in Medicine

Recent accounts of the seriousness with which womens' experience of pain is taken in the medical community give us pause to consider the connection between the mental and the physical aspects of health and illness. This talk will explore the thirteenth-century verse Roman de Silence---the story of a girl raised as a boy---for its questions about gendered bodily experience and suffering. 

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Nora Jones, PhD
Associate Professor, Bioethics
Associate Director, Center for Urban Bioethics
Center for Urban Bioethics 
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Bastardizing Plato’s Cave: Embodiment and Urban Bioethics 

In this talk we’ll be exploring the possibilities for health equity work that are illuminated when we shine a bioethics lens into spaces and contexts that are dense, diverse, and laden with disparities. We’ll discuss turning our attention to the shadows caused by that light and ask what the shadows can teach us. Throughout, attention will center on the embodied experiences of the stakeholders and the social construction of the cave. 

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