Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative

Jeffrey Bishop, Professor of Philosophy and Tenet Chair in Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University was interviewed in March of 2017 during the Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative's conference entitled "Taking Our Meds Faithfully? Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication." Through the generous support of the McDonald Agape Foundation, “Taking Our Meds Faithfully: Christian Engagements with Psychiatric Medication” is the first of four annual conferences that will engage moral and theological approaches to prescription medication use. Learn more here - https://goo.gl/fYu5aB

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 17, 2017 with Richard Payne, MD, Esther Colliflower Professor of Medicine and Divinity at Duke Divinity School.

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 3, 2017 with Stanley Hauerwas, DD, PhD, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke Divinity School.

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 20, 2017 entitled “Cura Personalis and the practice of medicine” with Martha Carlough, MD, MPH, Professor in Family Medicine and Public Health at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an Ignatian trained Spiritual Director.

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 September 29, 2017 entitled, "Divine Flatline: Is God dead in the ICU? How religion and spirituality are addressed in the Intensive Care Unit," with Philip Choi, MD, Pulmonologist and medical instructor in the Department of Medicine at Duke University.

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 March 10, 2017 entitled, “How Closely Do We Follow? Human Illness, The Cross of Christ, and The Complexities of Scripture in Pastoral Care,” with Aaron Klink, chaplain at Pruitt Hospice in Durham, NC.

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 17, 2017 entitled, “Paul’s Anthropology and the Care of the Person,” with Susan Eastman, PhD, Associate Research Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School.

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 3, 2017 entitled, “Imagination and the Secret to Enduring the Practice of Medicine,” with Ray Barfield, MD, PhD, associate Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy at Duke Divinity School and director of the Pediatric Quality of Life and Palliative Care Program at Duke University.

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 20, 2017 entitled, “Autism and Human Flourishing,” with Jeffrey Baker, MD, PhD, Director of the program in the History of Medicine at the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine and professor of Pediatrics and History at Duke University.

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 4, 2016 entitled, “A Theology of Care for the Body: Wesleyan Trajectories,” with Randy Maddox, PhD, William Kellon Quick Professor of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School.