Join us for an open reading reflecting the culmination of the Trent Center's Medicine, Humanities & the Arts seminar. The reading will be followed by a question and answer session and a dessert reception.
How have racial health disparities in Durham been understood over the past century? To what extent have their structural roots been appreciated? What role has Duke Health played in this history?
This exhibit, supported by a Duke Bass Connections grant, explores these questions...
Erica Charters, PhD examines how war and disease intersect with state formation and state power, particularly in colonial contexts. Her 2014 monograph Disease, War, and the Imperial State traces how responses to disease shaped military strategy, medical theory...
John Swinton, PhD is an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland who for more than a decade worked as a registered nurse specializing in psychiatry and learning disabilities. He also worked for a number of years as a hospital and community chaplain. In 2004, he...
The Trent Center, together with Duke’s Theology, Medicine and Culture Initiative, hosted the 2019 Conference on Medicine & Religion, which focused on Medicine & Faithful Responses to Suffering.
Physician and sociologist Jonathan M. Metzl traveled across America’s heartland examining the politics of racial resentment and its impact on public health. His newly published fourth book (March, 2019) is Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland.
Following the 2019 McGovern Lecture, to be delivered by Robert Truog, MD, this symposium brings leading experts to Duke to explore some difficult questions focusing on the definition of death and the future of vital organ transplantation.
For more information, see the symposium website.
Robert Truog, MD is Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesiology and Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. He also practices pediatric intensive care medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Truog has published more than 300 articles in bioethics and related disciplines. He is co-author of Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation (Oxford, 2012). He lectures widely both nationally and internationally; and is an active member of numerous committees and advisory boards. He is the author of current national guidelines for providing end-of-life care in the intensive care unit.
See recording of Robert Truog's talk.
Kevin Weinfurt, PhD is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Population Health Sciences in the Duke University School of Medicine. He is also professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Duke University Medical Center and a faculty member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Professor Weinfurt conducts research on measuring patient-reported outcomes, medical decision making, and bioethics. As an educator, he co-directs Duke's masters-level Clinical Research Training Program and has taught undergraduate courses in introductory psychology, judgment and decision making, the psychology of medical decision making; and graduate courses in multivariate statistics and patient-reported outcomes research.
See recording of Kevin Weinfurt's talk.
This symposium will bring together a variety of practitioners and educators who have begun to address questions around an anti-racism curriculum for health professional education at Duke and beyond.
For more information, see the symposium website.
