Click the video link below to watch a webinar entitled, “What Says the Great Physician: Moral Reflection, Medical Ethics, and Cultural Narratives Amid COVID-19.” The webinar was hosted by The North Carolina Study Center and features Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Professors Farr Curlin and Patrick Smith. It explores questions of morality and meaning that the United States is grappling with in the midst of the cornona virus pandemic.
A palliative medicine physician-ethicist, Curlin, M.D., is the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities at Duke, where he holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine, including its Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, and in Duke Divinity School, where he is codirector of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative. Smith, Ph.D., is an associate research professor of theological ethics and bioethics at the Divinity School and a senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
Matt Hoehn, director of Christian Thought at the North Carolina Study Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Delaney Thull, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at UNC will moderate the conversation.
Click below to watch the webinar: