Georgetown University — Undergraduate

The Thomistic Institute at Georgetown University presents a lecture by Prof. Lydia Dugdale of Columbia University entitled “Medicine & the Art of Ethics: On the Moral Obligation to Acknowledge Our Finitude.”

This lecture will be on Zoom- Register below.

Thursday, October 29

7:00pm EST

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THE FIRST 15 STUDENTS TO REGISTER AND ATTEND THE EVENT WITH A GEORGETOWNEMAIL ADDRESS WILL RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF PROF. DUGDALE’S BOOK,“THE LOST ART OF DYING.”

About the speaker: Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics), is Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she served as Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), a popular press book on the preparation for death.