Duke Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative

Dr. Farr Curlin speaks with CMDA CEO Dr. Mike Chupp on preserving the way of medicine and protecting conscientious objection as a practice essential to moral medicine. "What we want to say is, 'I am your physician and I am committed to being your physician. To do that, I have to act in a way that is consistent with your health'...We are healers, we are not just technicians for hire."

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...

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 C...

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 F...

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 & His...

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 tal...

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 M...

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 5, 2018 with Josh Williams, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine/ Denver Health Medical Center. His talk is entitled, "Minister to their Vaccination: Historical and Empirical S...

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 5, 2018 with Stuart Knechtle, MD, the Mary and Deryl Hart Professor of Surgery in the School of Medicine and executive director of Duke Transplant Center. Dr. Knechtle specializes in liver surgery and transplantation for adult...

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 2, 2018 with Dr. Rebecca Todd-Peters, Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. Her talk is entitled, "Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice."

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 21, 2018 with Elaine Howard Ecklund, PhD, is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and director of The Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University. Her seminar is entitled, "Science...

Brandon Appelhans, founder and Executive Director of My Quiet Cave, 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 Ps...

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 Faith...

John Swinton, Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at University of Aberdeen was interviewed in March, 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 Engagemen...

Ryan Lawrence, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and New York – Presbyterian Hospital, 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, “Ta...

Susan Eastman, Associate Research Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School 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 En...

Therese Lysaught, Professor, Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University Chicago, 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...

Warren Kinghorn, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pastoral and Moral Theology at Duke Divinity School 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 Fa...

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 Di...