Vanderbilt University and Medical School

The Thomistic Institute at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Medical School present a lecture by Dr. Farr Curlin titled “So You Want to Be a Doctor? Medicine as Instrumental Job vs. Sacred Vocation.”

This lecture will be delivered over Zoom. Register below to receive the Zoom credentials in your email inbox.

Thursday, February 11

6:00 pm CST

About the Speaker:

Farr Curlin is the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religion associated 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.