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In the Spotlight

DUKE TMC CO-DIRECTOR FARR CURLIN SPEAKS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ABOUT “MAKING SENSE OF ‘DEATH WITH DIGNITY'”

Prof. Farr Curlin, MD of Duke University gave a lecture titled “Making Sense of ‘Death with Dignity’ on November 14 with the Thomistic Institute chapter at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Curlin practices Palliative Medicine in Durham, NC. He is also a Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director of the Theology,
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“Is It Faithful to Flee an Epidemic? What Martin Luther Teaches Us About Coronavirus”

Emmy Yang’s recent editorial, “Is It Faithful to Flee an Epidemic? What Martin Luther Teaches Us About Coronavirus,” in Christianity Today evaluates the insight Martin Luther’s teachings can provide for how Christians can respond faithfully to this outbreak. Emmy Yang is a current Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow and a medical student at the Icahn
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“A Model of Life”: Gabrielle Daniels, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow ’18, Seeks Health Care Justice for Women and Children of Color

“As health professionals, we need to get ahold of the ministry of healing as ordained through Christ Jesus,” says Gabrielle Daniels, an alumna of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture (TMC) Fellowship at Duke Divinity School. Daniels, who also holds an MPH from Yale, is now a Project Manager at the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), and
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Theology, Medicine & Culture Events

TMC Seminar: “Jesus’s Ministry of Healing,” Dr. Randy Clark

Friday, February 21, 2020, 12PM | Alumni Memorial Common Room (152 Langford)
Dr. Randy Clark is the overseer of Global Awakening and the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening. He is a major figure in charismatic Christian healing movements and is best known for his leadership in what has come to be called “the Toronto Blessing.” In the years since, he has been invited to speak about revival,

TMC Seminar: Gilbert Meilaender, PhD

Friday, March 20, 2020, 12PM | Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and the History of Medicine
Gilbert Meilaender is Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University and the Paul Ramsey Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.  He taught at the University of Virginia (1975-78), at Oberlin College (1978-96), and at Valparaiso University (1996-2014), where he held the Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics.  Professor Meilaender is the author of

ARETE MEDICAL ETHICS SUMMER SEMINAR

Monday, June 15, 2020, 9AM | Duke University
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 be contrasted with principlism and consequentialism as participants consider what sort of