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Our Stories

“ I have experienced the TMC Fellowship as a precious and undeserved gift. Even as an undergraduate student, I longed to connect my interest in becoming a physician and my Christian faith. I was thrilled to come to Duke as a TMC Fellow between my second and third years of medical school. Before, I felt as if I was pursuing these questions alone. Now I have a community of friends pursuing them alongside me.”

Harrison Hines, TMC Fellow

In the Spotlight

TMC Fellows Kirsten Simmons and Jennifer Tu Win 2019-20 Academic Awards

Congratulations to Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellows and Duke medical students, recipients of 2020 academic awards. Kirsten Simmons received the Julian Abele Graduate Student of the Year Award. “Students of the Year recipients are honored and recognized because of their outstanding work in specific Graduate/Professional Schools and for their commitment to Black communities and Black [...]

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TMC Fellow Brendan Johnson wins Kenan Moral Purpose Award

Congratulations to TMC Fellow Brendan Johnson, winner of the Kenan Moral Purpose Award, for his essay, “Moral Medicine.” The essay describes how his studies in Social Medicine and Liberation Theology led him to question the inherent value structure of professional medicine, realizing, “the status of the poor becomes the ethical standard by which we measure [...]

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Ethical Medicine Means Getting Political

In this opinion piece for the Hastings Center, TMC Fellow Brendan Johnson explores how COVID-19 brings into view the political dimensions of truly ethical medicine. “Dilemmas that clinicians face in the coronavirus pandemic–who gets the ventilator, the 80-year-old grandmother or the 20-year-old student?–are the bread and butter of mainstream bioethics. In medical school, my classmates [...]

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Theology, Medicine & Culture Events

CANCELLED: ARETE MEDICAL ETHICS SUMMER SEMINAR

Monday, June 15, 2020, 9AM | Duke University

CANCELLED due to COVID-19. Please contact Professor John Rose with questions: john.rose@duke.edu This seminar invites students to examine the central ethical questions that arise in the everyday practice of medicine and to interpret those questions through a moral framework drawing from both natural law and medicine’s traditional orientation toward the patient’s health. This framework will [...]