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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

Why Medical Humanities and Bioethics?
Five-minute faculty takes on the field and how we got here

Come help us kick off the academic year with a fun introduction to our faculty! Interdisciplinarity is a defining feature of our field. So what draws scholars from their home disciplines into Medical Humanities and Bioethics? What problems can be explored and addressed in new ways in this space? MHB faculty will offer pithy disciplinary and personal perspectives on these questions in a fast-paced, flash presentation format. You’ll hear from:

Megan Crowley-Matoka (Anthropology) 

Catherine Belling (Literature)  

Tod Chambers (Religion)

Sarah Rodriguez (History)

Katie Watson (Law) 

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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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Daisy Hernández, PhD
Author | Journalist
Associate Professor 
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Creative Writing 
Department of English
Northwestern University

Networks Of Neglect and Care: 
Chagas Disease and Racial Inequities in Public Health 

Chagas disease was long described as one of the most neglected of the neglected “tropical” diseases, so how did it recently make alarming headlines across the United States? Professor Hernández discusses this infectious disease, the unspoken policy of containment rather than eradication of such diseases, and how she came to write about parasites, triatomine insects, and her auntie in her award-winning book The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease.  

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior St), 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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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Mark Kuczewski, PhD, HEC-C
The Father Michael I. English, SJ, Professor of Medical Ethics
Director, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

Vandalizing Dignity: Current Narratives of Migration

Current narratives regarding immigrants paint a negative picture of new arrivals to the U.S. Their arrival is often considered a "crisis" that overwhelms the resource capacity of the nation. Often the migrants are portrayed as criminals who endanger the community. Portrayals have even devolved into characterizations of our neighbors as subhuman vermin who eat pets. We will examine the question of medicine's role as an advocate for human dignity and equality and consider alternative narratives available in U.S. history.

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior St), 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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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Shameka Poetry Thomas, PhD
Assistant Professor
Provost Scholar
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Founder, Sickle Cell Women and Girls (SWAG) Research Lab

Expanding Reproductive Equity:
Patient Perceptions of Noninvasive Prenatal Testing for Sickle Cell Disease

This presentation focuses on examining the complicated overlap of sickle cell disease and reproductive healthcare and is particularly focused on the lived experiences and patient perceptions of Black women with and without sickle cell disease who are navigating and negotiating the advancement of noninvasive prenatal screening for sickle cell disease in the United States.

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior St), 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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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture


With

Rebecca M. Harris, MD, PhD, MA
Attending in Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital
Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Principal Investigator, The Genes & Hormones Initiative

Loss of Trust: Societal Pressure and Gender-Affirming Care

Medical providers and researchers associated with gender-affirming care are facing immense societal, political, economic, and moral pressure. We will explore how these factors are affecting the medical and research landscapes, and in turn causing providers and researchers to lose trust in these systems.

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior St), 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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