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Helping Patients Who Are Dying or Helping Patients to Die? | Prof. Farr Curlin

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This lecture was given on November 13th, 2023, at East Carolina University. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events 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 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.

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Religion & Spirituality • Christianity
Society & Culture • Philosophy

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