Research in Humanities and Humanistic Aspects of Medicine

 

Trent Center faculty pursue research in areas related to the social and cultural aspects of medicine. Practicing physicians, scientists, theologians, artists, scholars, they explore empirical and theoretical realms of philosophy, literature, spirituality, art, education, culture and community, often in relation to human health and health care.

 

Ray Barfield - pediatric oncology, intersection of medicine, philosophy and theology

 

Sherryl Broverman - science and underrepresented populations, linkages between gender inequality, secondary education, and HIV risk in rural Kenya

 

Harvey Jay Cohen - medicine, importance of religion and spirituality in health and aging

 

Howard Eisenson - humanistic aspects of medical practice, professionalism

 

Mary Fulkerson - theology, race, practices involving people with disabililties

 

Amy Laura Hall - theological and biomedical ethics

 

Alex Harris - documentary work around social issues such as aging in America and cultural diversity

 

Stanley Hauerwas - systematic theology, philosophical theology and ethics, political theory, philosophy of social science, medical ethics

 

Karla Holloway - African American cultural studies, biocultural studies, gender, ethics and law

 

Keith Meador - connection between theology and health, practices of caring, health of faith communities and clergy

 

Lloyd Michener - community health, disease prevention, informatics, training of faculty

 

Martin Miller - Russia: history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, analysis of psychiatric diagnosis

 

Marie Lynn Miranda - children's environmental health

 

Jason Morrow - clinical ethics, especially end-of-life care and doctor-patient communication, ethics in graduate medical education

 

John Moses - pediatrics, documentary photography that explores social and medical issues

 

Frank Neelon - role of literature in the formation and development of clinical practice

 

Richard Payne - clinical and research aspects of pain management and palliative medicine around the world

 

David Pisetsky - published short stories and essays illuminating human realities of doctor and patient in medical practice

 

Neil Prose - training doctors and other health care providers in skills of empathic communication, care for skin diseases in developing countries

 

Alexander Rosenberg - metaphysics and causality, philosophy of social sciences, especially economics, philosophy of biology

 

Barbara Sheline - community medicine

 

James Tulsky - doctor-patient communication, quality of life at the end of life, including clinical, psychosocial and spiritual trajectories

 

Alan Verhey - application of Christian ethics especially in medical and health practice

 

Priscilla Wald - literary analysis focused on history of medicine and medical ethics, particularly relationship between medical hypotheses and social and cultural change