University of South Carolina

The Thomistic Institute chapter at the University of South Carolina presents a lecture by Prof. Farr Curlin, MD of Duke University titled “Making Sense of ‘Death with Dignity.’”

Petigru 111 | Columbia, South Carolina

Thursday, Nov. 14

7:30 PM

This event is free and open to all.

About the speaker:

Farr Curlin is 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.