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In the Spotlight

“The Way of Medicine”: A medical student reflects on her experience at the Arete Medical Ethics Seminar, led by Dr. Farr Curlin

In an article for Convivium, medical student Samantha Rossi reflects on her experience at the Arete Medical Ethics seminar at Duke University in June 2019. The seminar, led by Duke TMCI’s Dr. Farr Curlin, and Dr. Chris Tollefsen, a philosopher at the University of South Carolina, is a 5-day course inviting participants to examine central
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Register for Practice and Presence 2019!

Join us for our upcoming Practice and Presence Conference, September 13-15 at Duke Divinity School, entitled “Fear Not: Faithful Health Care in an Anxious Age.”  The conference features plenary speakers Abraham Nussbaum, Victoria Sweet, Lydia Dugdale, Brian Volck, and others. This year, we are proud to offer continuing education credit. We hope many health care
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New TMC Video | “God, Give Me Eyes to See”: The Fellowship in Theology, Medicine, and Culture

Watch this profile of TMC Fellowship alumnus Dr. Benjamin Frush, a medicine-pediatrics resident at Vanderbilt, whose experience as a Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow at Duke Divinity School gave him eyes to see Christ in his patients.  
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Theology, Medicine & Culture Events

TMC Seminar: “Land and People Together: A Biblical Vision of Health,” Daniel Stulac, PhD

Friday, October 4, 2019, 12PM | Alumni Memorial Common Room (152 Langford)
This TMC Seminar, in partnership with the Reimagining Health Collaborative (RHC), aligns with RHC’s “Food, Health, and the Body” 2019 theme. The seminar will introduce participants to various ways in which an agrarian understanding of the Old Testament makes visible its integrated vision of human health, with examples taken especially from the Former and Latter Prophets. Ellen Davis’s important

TMC Seminar: A Conversation with Dr. Raymond Barfield

Friday, October 18, 2019, 12PM | Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Ray Barfield is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy. Dr. Barfield is a pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician. He joined the faculties of Duke University Medical School and Duke Divinity School in 2008. He is a founding director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative and the Pediatric Quality of Life and Palliative

TMC Seminar: “Race, Religion, and the Medical Aid in Dying Movement,” Terri Laws, PhD

Friday, November 1, 2019, 12PM | Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Terri Laws completed the doctorate of philosophy in Religious Studies with a concentration in African American Religions at Rice University. Dr. Laws employs theories and methods from the social sciences to investigate questions in race, religion, and society with healthcare and health inequities as her institutional focus. The aim of her research agenda is to

TMC Seminar: “Shakespeare on the End of Life,” Brian Quaranta, MD, MA

Friday, November 15, 2019, 12PM | Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Dr. Quaranta is an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at Duke University School of Medicine, and Associate Faculty at the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine. His practice focuses on general radiation oncology, with a particular interest in breast and prostate cancers. In addition to his medical interests, he very interested in