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Humanities in Medicine & Biomedical Ethics: Upcoming Speaker Events

October 28, 2022

Program for Humanities in Medicine

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness: A Conversation with Meghan O’Rourke and Dr. Lisa Sanders

November 17, 2022 (5:00 – 6:30 pm)

Zoom

Meghan O’Rouke
writer, poet and editor; author, New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (2022); senior lecturer in English and Creative Writing, Yale University

Lisa Sanders, MD, FACP
associate professor of medicine (general medicine); co-director, Writers Workshop, Yale School of Medicine; author, Diagnosis column, New York Times Magazine

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The Morris Dillard Lecture

Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools: A Roundtable Discussion

November 30, 2022 (5:00 – 6:30 pm)

Medical Historical Library and Zoom

Christopher D.E. Willoughby, PhD
visiting assistant professor of history of medicine and health, Pitzer College; author, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools

Discussants:

Liana DeMarco, PhD
post-doctoral fellow, History of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

Sean Morey Smith, PhD
post-doctoral fellow, History of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

Chinye Ijeli
medical student, Yale School of Medicine

Moderator

Carolyn Roberts, PhD
assistant professor, History of Science & History of Medicine; African American Studies, Yale University

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The Thomas P. Duffy Lecture

Dominant Narratives in Population Health: Reading Against the Grain with Robert Rock, MD

January 19, 2023 (5:00 – 6:30 pm)

TAC Auditorium and Zoom

Robert Rock, MD
postdoctoral fellow, Yale School of Medicine

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Program for Biomedical Ethics

The Future of Disability Bioethics

November 16, 2022 (5:00 – 6:30 pm)

Zoom & The Anylan Center, 300 Cedar Street

Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD
assistant professor of philosophy & disability studies, Georgetown University; senior research scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics; senior advisor, The Hastings Center; faculty scholar, The Greenwall Foundation; editor, The Journal of Philosophy of Disability; series editor, Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, and Society

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RSVP to karen.kolb@yale.edu if you plan to attend in person to help the Program for Biomedical Ethics plan for providing food.



Rhetoric and Role of Suffering in Pediatric Decision-Making

November 30, 2022 (5:00 – 6:30 pm)

ZOOM

Erica Salter, PhD
director of Ph.D. program; associate professor of health care ethics; associate professor of pediatrics, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University

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The Ethics of Trigger Warnings

December 7, 2022 (5:00-6:30 pm)

Zoom & The Anylan Center, 300 Cedar Street

Tia Powell, MD
Dr. Shoshanah Trachtenberg Frackman Chair in Bioethics; director, Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics; professor of epidemiology and psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; author, Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End

Beverly Sheares, MD, MS
associate professor of pediatrics, Section of Respiratory, Allergy/Immunology, & Sleep Medicine; leader, Health Equity Thread, Yale School of Medicine; director, Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship Program

Douglas Shenson, MD, MPH, MS, MA
director, Populations & Methods: the Application of Epidemiology and Biostatistics to Public Health; deputy leader, Health Equity Thread; associate professor adjunct, Yale School of Medicine; associate clinical professor, Yale School of Public Health

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RSVP to karen.kolb@yale.edu if you plan to attend in person to help the Program for Biomedical Ethics plan for providing food.


Submitted by Abigail Roth on October 27, 2022