Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 21, 2020 with Randy Clark, DMin, MDiv, who currently serves as adjunct faculty at both United Theological Seminary and Global Awakening Theological Seminary. His talk is entitled, "Jesus's Ministry of Healing."

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 14, 2020 with Tamara Fitzgerald, MD, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Surgery at Duke University. Her talk is entitled, "Hearing God's Voice in Our Academic Lives."

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on January 17, 2020 with Curt Thompson, M.D., who is a psychiatrist in private practice in Falls Church, Virginia. His talk is entitled "Beauty and the Renewal of All Things."

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 1, 2019 with Terri Laws, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health and Human Services and Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Michigan at Dearborn. Her talk is entitled, "African American Christianity and Physician Assisted Suicide."

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 18, 2019 with Ray Barfield, MD, PhD, pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician at Duke University Hospital and Associate Professor of Christian Philosophy at Duke Divinity School. His talk is entitled, "On Beautiful Clinical Encounters: Resisting the Corporatization of American Medicine."

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on October 4, 2019 with Daniel Stulac, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School. His talk is entitled, “Land and People Together: A Biblical Vision of Health."

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on February 8, 2019 with Joshua C. Briscoe, MD, Medical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical School. His talk is entitled, "A Faithful and Wise Compassion: When Potions, Pills, and Procedures Fail."

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on January 18, 2019 with Farr Curlin, MD. Dr. Curlin is Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities. A practicing palliative medicine physician, Farr works in both the School of Medicine’s Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, and the Divinity School’s Initiative on Theology, Medicine, and Culture. His talk is entitled, "Just Do your Job: Technology, Bureaucracy, and the Eclipse of Conscience in Contemporary Medicine."

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on August 30, 2019 with Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD, the Esther Colliflower Associate Research Professor of Pastoral and Moral Theology at Duke Divinity School and Associate Professor of Psychiatry in Duke University Medical Center. His talk is entitled, "Mental Health is More than Symptom Reduction: Prescribing in the Context of Relationship, Agency, and Story."

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on November 30, 2018 with Walter Lee, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Surgery and Associate Professor in Radiation Oncology in the Duke University School of Medicine. His talk is entitled, "Code Blue: Fighting to Save the Moral Life of Medical Trainees."