Program for Humanities in Medicine

THE PROGRAM FOR HUMANITIES IN MEDICINE
2009 - 2010

Lectures are at 5 PM on Thursdays, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven.

The lectures are free and open to the public.

Lectures are located at:
Anlyan Auditorium - 300 Cedar Street
Beaumont Room - 333 Cedar Street
Jane Ellen Hope Building - 315 Cedar Street
Yale Child Study Center - 230 South Frontage Street

For more information, contact The Humanities Program at 203-785-6102 or by e-mail Deborah Finger

 
  September October November December
January February March April May

 

September 10 - Hope 216 (5:30pm)
MEDICINE ON THE FRONTIERS OF RAIN FOREST CONSERVATION:
HEALTHCARE TO HEAL THE PLANET
Kinari Webb, M.D.
Family Medicine Specialist &
Program Director, Alam Sehat Lestari


September 24 - Beaumont Room
THE NAZI DOCTORS AND THEIR BIOMEDICAL VISION
Manny Bekier, MS
Director of Biomedical Communications
SUNY Downstate Medical Center

 

October 8 - Beaumont Room
LETTERS TO A BEST FRIEND AND KINFE SONG KOREA
Richard Selzer, M.D.
Author

 

October 22 - Beaumont Room
THE WHISPERING PATIENT
The Arnold Baskin Lecture
Richard Cohen
Author, New York City




November 12 - Beaumont Room
THE ROLE OF NARRATIVE AND REFLECTION IN DEALING WITH TRAGEDY
The Richard Selzer Lecture
Nancy Rappaport, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

 

November 19 - Anlyan Auditorium
ETHICAL STANDARDS, PROFESSIONALISM AND CULTURE:
MAKING TOUGH CHOICES

Roger Worthington, PhD
Law & Ethics Lead, School of Medicine
Keele University, England




December 3 - Beaumont Room
CALLED BACK: MY REPLY TO CANCER, MY RETURN TO LIFE
Mary Cappello, PhD
Professor of English & Creative Writing
University of Rhode Island



December 10 - Anlyan Auditorium
MY PATIENT, MY MUSE: ETHICAL ISSUES FOR PHYSICIAN ARTISTS
Anna Blohm M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai School Medicine




January 21- Beaumont Room
LOOKING IS NOT SEEING AND LISTENING IS NOT HEARING
The Thomas Duffy Lecture
Thomas C. Duffy, DMA.
Professor Adj School of Music & Director of University Bands
Yale School of Music



January 28 - Beaumont Room
PHYSICIAN AUTHOR TELLING STORIES TO DOCTORS
The McGovern Lecture
Michael Lacombe, M.D.
Associate Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine

 

February 4 - Beaumont Room
The Multicultural Lecture
TBA



February 18 - Beaumont Room
APPALACHIAN PORTRAITS: A HEALING PERSPECTIVE
The Barwick Lecture
Shelby Adams
Photographer



February 25 - Beaumont Room
THE PERILS OF MEDICAL PERFECTIONISM
The James D. Kenney Lecture
Robert Burt, JD.
Professor of Law, Yale Law School




March 11 - Beaumont Room
MORAL DISTRESS IN HEALING ARTS
The Dobihal Lecture

Constance Donovan, MSM, RN, FAAN
Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist & Asst. Clinical Professor
Yale School of Nursing


March 25 - Cohen Auditorium, Yale Child Study Center (5:30pm)
JUSTICE AT END OF LIFE
Timothy Quill, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Humanities
University of Rochester School of Medicine

 

April 8 - Beaumont Room
ASYLUM: INSIDE THE CLOSED WORLD OF STATE MENTAL HOSPITALS
Chris Payne
Photographer

 

 

April 22 - Beaumont Room
WRITERS' WORKSHOP PRESENTATION

Richard Selzer, M.D. & Lorence Gutterman, M.D.
Author
Author
 




May 6 - Beaumont Room
BOOK OF PAIN: CURES, RIDDLES, SPELLS, BRAIN SCANS, MYTHS MISCONCEPTIONS
AND THE SCIENCE OF SUFFERING
Melanie Thernstrom
Author



May 13 -TBA
TBA
The Dillard Lecture
Eric Holmbe, M.D.

 

 

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