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The Lost Art of Dying

Iowa State University

A lecture by Prof. Lydia Dugdale (Columbia University)

Thursday, September 14th

7:00 PM

MacKay Hall 0117

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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.

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