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So You Want to be a Doctor? Medicine​​​​​ as Instrumental Job vs. Sacred Vocation

Baylor University

A lecture by Prof. Farr Curlin (Duke University)

Tuesday, October 24

6:30 PM

Cashion 102

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.

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