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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Alicia “Lish” Aiken, Attorney
Principal at Danu Center for Strategic Advocacy
Director of Danu Center’s Confidentiality Institute
Chicago, Illinois

Confidentiality, Domestic Violence Survivors, and Healthcare

Professionals are taught to tell people, “It’s confidential.” But what does that really mean?

*How much do domestic violence survivors understand about who will have access to their healthcare information?
*How much do providers understand?
*Are there ways in which the sharing and accessibility of healthcare records may harm domestic violence survivors or deter them from seeking care?
*How do we balance individual needs to control personal health information with institutional needs to manage and improve the delivery of care?

These are thorny, complicated questions, and they don’t always have a “right” answer. Join us for a nuanced conversation about the intersection of privacy law, healthcare best practices, and domestic violence survivor risk management.

This lecture will be held in person for Northwestern students, faculty, and staff—in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior). Chicago Campus. For those outside the Northwestern community and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, the Zoom option will continue to be available.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Sharrona Pearl, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioethics and History
Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Mask: Concealing and Revealing
This talk seeks to uncover.  To expose.  To lay bare.  This talk will take the mask itself–an object designed to conceal, to protect, to create barriers and boundaries–and see what lies within. Using a broad historical lens, this talk will explore the history of masking, asking various sites and domains of practice to show its consistent use as a means of protection and division. The mask will show who, in a given context, is worthy of protection, and who is not.  The talk will focus in particular on masking as a means of protecting: identities from detection; bodies from injury; emotion from clear expression; the health of the wearers and the health of those around them; and the souls and spirits of those engaged in religious ritual. The talk will discuss contemporary masking from the anti-mask laws of the nineteenth century through the pandemic, looking in particular at the tensions between exposure and concealment, both of which are perceived as mechanisms of safety. Talk will conclude with a discussion of racism in masking practices, arguing that for Black men in the US, structural racism was behind attempts to criminalize their masking, even when it was legally required due to public health ordinances.  What does masking mean for bodies that were always already wrong?

This lecture will be held in person for Northwestern students, faculty, and staff—in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior). Chicago Campus. For those outside the Northwestern community and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, the Zoom option will continue to be available.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Lily Stewart, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and English 
Northwestern University
Adjunct Professor in the Honors Humanities Program
Loyola University Chicago

Memory, Transformation, and the Communal Leprous Body in 
Premodern Christian Thought

This lecture will examine how medieval people with leprosy imagined the processes by which their bodies and identities transformed. Leprosy was a degenerative condition that often carried a long prognosis and significant changes in mobility, appearance, and social positioning. We will explore how people with the disease were often caught between the memories of their former, healthy identities, and the realities of their ailing presents. At the same time, we will consider how memory was used to craft communities of care around and among leprous people that centered on the inherent mutability of human flesh, and the potential of all bodies to become leprous. 

This lecture will be held in person for Northwestern students, faculty, and staff—in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior). Chicago Campus. For those outside the Northwestern community and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, the Zoom option will continue to be available.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Jay Baruch, MD 
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Alpert Medical School at Brown University
Director, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Scholarly Concentration

Stories as Unchartered Territories: Constraints and Creativity

Medicine prides itself on being an evidence-based practice, but emergency medicine, and medicine in general, is the practice of understanding and responding to patients' complex, messy, and vulnerable stories. But the reductive focus of medicine, and the many constraints facing healthcare providers, make this task difficult. In this presentation, Dr. Baruch will discuss moments in his work as an ER physician when there wasn't any map to help guide into another human's experience and how he leaned on his creative writing and narrative skills. And how writing, in turn, enabled him to work through these little earthquakes we face silently every day—including uncomfortable emotions, moral dilemmas, and limits to our compassion.

This lecture will be held in person for Northwestern students, faculty, and staff—in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior). Chicago Campus. For those outside the Northwestern community and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, the Zoom option will continue to be available.

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The Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program and IPHAM

Present a Co-Sponsored Lecture

With

Katie Watson, JD
Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Medical Education, and Ob/Gyn
Faculty, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Roe 2.0

Professor Watson will mark what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade with an assessment of the status of reproductive freedom and justice in the U.S. After reviewing the new restrictions and liberties of the current legal landscape, she will offer a historical perspective on how we got here, and offer a positive vision for where we might go next.  

This lecture will be held in-person for Northwestern students, faculty, and staff—in Baldwin Auditorium, 1st floor, Lurie Research Building (303 E. Superior). Chicago Campus. For those outside the Northwestern community and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, the Zoom option will be available.

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