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YCC Humanities in Medicine: "Dehumanization in Medicine: Causes and Cures"

Name: YCC Humanities in Medicine: "Dehumanization in Medicine: Causes and Cures"
Start: 2013-04-11T21:00:00.0000000Z
End: 2013-04-11T22:00:00.0000000Z
Location: 300 Cedar St

300 Cedar St

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Dehumanization is endemic in medical practice. Why? What can be done? Is it sometimes functional? What should be done? Combining descriptive and normative reflection, this talk will explain the major social psychological causes of dehumanization in medical settings, and potential cures.

Speaker

Omar Sultan Haque, MD, MTS
Co-Director of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics; &

Host Organization

Program for Humanities in Medicine

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Free: NA

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Lectures and Seminars