Back to All Events

Helping Patients Who Are Dying or Helping Patients to Die? Making sense of ‘medical aid in dying’

East Carolina University

A lecture by Prof. Farr Curlin (Duke University)

Monday, November 13th

4:30 PM

Bate 1010

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Farr Curlin is the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and CoDirector of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religionassociated differences in physicians’ practices. He is an active palliative medicine physician and holds appointments in both the School of Medicine and the Divinity School, where he is working with colleagues to develop a new interdisciplinary community of scholarship and training focused on the intersection of theology, medicine, and culture.

Previous
Previous
November 12

The Science and Ethics of CRISPR and CRISPR-Inspired Gene Editing

Next
Next
November 13

Going ‘Deeper than Darwin’: God and Biological Evolution