Events

Join TMC for Practice and Presence 2019: “Fear Not: Faithful Health Care in an Anxious Age.” Ample evidence indicates that physicians and other health care practitioners are as frustrated with American healthcare as ever before, and Christian practitioners are no exception. Many struggle to find ways of practicing that answer to their calling as healers, much less their calling as followers of Christ. In this context, Christians are tempted to cynicism and resentment. In the 2019 Practice and Presence conference,…

Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics) is Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She has recently been tasked with building and directing a center for clinical medical ethics within the Department of Internal Medicine. A practicing internist, Dugdale’s scholarship focuses on end-of-life issues, medical ethics, and the doctor-patient relationship. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of the forthcoming The Lost Art of Dying Well (HarperOne, 2020). NOTE: This event will take…

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 volume, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture (2009), proposes that contemporary agrarians such as Wendell Berry can help us to become better readers of the Bible, because those agrarians perceive…

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 Care program. The first half of his career focused on improving immune therapies for childhood cancer (including bone marrow transplantation and antibody therapy) and understanding…

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 contribute to the body of knowledge that reduces health inequity through the investigation of social and cultural factors. Click here for a full bio.  

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 literature, history, psychology, and philosophy. In further pursuit of those interests he has obtained an MA in Shakespeare and Theatre from the Shakespeare Institute at…