In this talk, Sneha Mantri shows how a novel featuring no doctors at all contains essential truths for medical education, training, and practice.
See recording of Sneha Mantri's talk.
Advances in heart disease have fundamentally changed what it means to be a human being, opening raw ethical conundrums. Technology today allows many patients to survive long after their own hearts have stopped beating. This talk will explore the implications of the commodification of artificial organs and the merger of man and machine.
See recording of Haider Warraich's talk.
Victoria Sweet is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a prize-winning historian with a PhD in history. In her lecture, she argues that the most powerful rule of conscience is the oldest--the Hippocratic Oath's formulation that doctors should enter the exam room solely for the benefit of their patients.
See recording of Victoria Sweet's talk.
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.
See recording of Jonathan Metzl's talk.
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.
Also, see recordings of Panel 1 talks & discussion, Panel 2 talks, and Panel 2 discussion.
