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A panel of medical humanities scholars reflect on, and discuss, the issues, approaches,
and concepts that will define the medical humanities in this coming decade
To download a pdf of the event poster, click here.
Event Schedule
4:00 pm Welcome by Adrián Pérez Melgosa, HISB Director; Introduction by Andrew Fleschler, Stony Brook University
4:15 pm Presentations moderated by Lisa Diedrich, Stony Brook University
Presentation 1
Presentation 2
Presentation 3
Presentation 4
5:15 pm Panel discussion lead by Lisa Diedrich
6:00 pm Q&A
6:30 pm Closing remarks by Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Reception
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| Jack Coulehan (MD, MPH) is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, and Senior
Fellow of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at
Stony Brook University. He developed and directed the Medicine in Contemporary Society
curriculum for medical students and chaired the hospital ethics committee for many
years. Coulehan has contributed numerous articles and book chapters to the literature
in fields as diverse as clinical epidemiology, physician-patient communication, medical
ethics, literature in medicine, professional formation, and medical education, and
his award-winning textbook The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice is used in medical schools throughout the United States. Jack is the author of six
collections of poetry, including most recently The Wound Dresser, which was selected by Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States,
as a finalist for the 2016 Dorset Poetry Prize. Among Jack’s awards are the Humanities
Medal of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the Nicholas
Davies Award of the American College of Physicians for lifetime contributions to the
humanities in medicine. |
Andrew M. Flescher (PhD) is a Professor of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine and English and
core faculty in the Program of Public Health at Stony Brook University. He is a scholar
of biomedical ethics, ethics and literature, public health, and health care policy,
also serving Stony Brook Hospital in a clinical setting as Living Donor Advocate,
sitting on its Living Donor Committee and Hospital Ethics Committee. Flescher received
his BA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies and History from Duke University and his
MA and PhD in Religious Studies from Brown University. In addition to writing several
articles and book chapters, he is the author of four books: Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality, The Altruistic Species (2007, winner of the Choice Award), Moral Evil (2013, winner of the Prose Award), and most recently The Organ Shortage Crisis in America.
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| Lisa Diedrich (PhD) received her PhD in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University
in 2001. Since then she has taught in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony
Brook. Her research and teaching interests include critical medical studies, disability
studies, feminist science studies, and interdisciplinary feminist and queer theories
and methodologies. She is the author of Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism
and Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness. She is also editor (with Victoria Hesford) of the collection Feminist Time Against Nation Time: Gender, Politics, and the Nation-State in an Age
of Permanent War and a special issue of Feminist Theory "Experience, Echo, Event: Theorising Feminist Histories, Historicising Feminist Theory". She
is affiliated faculty in the Department of Philosophy and with the PhD concentration
in Disability Studies in the School of Health Technology and Management. |
| Esther L Jones (PhD) is an Associate Professor of English and the E. Franklin Frazier Chair of African
American Literature, Theory and Culture currently serving as Associate Provost and
Dean of the Faculty at Clark University in Worcester, MA. She holds a doctorate in
English and a Master of Arts in African American and African Studies from the Ohio
State University. Her research specializations include race and gender in the medical
humanities, literature and medicine, speculative fiction, and black diasporic women’s
literature. Jones is the author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction which examines the constructions of black pathology and bioethics in science fiction
by contemporary black women writers. She is currently editor-in-chief of the forthcoming
is the editor-in-chief of a forthcoming major reference work titled, The Palgrave Handbook of Global Critical Health Humanities, Race and Ethnicity. |
Rishi Goyal (MD, PhD) is Director of the Medicine, Literature and Society major at Institute
for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is also an attending
physician in the Emergency Department at Columbia University Medical Center and a
Visiting Professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. His research,
writing and teaching focuses on the reciprocal transformations that result when new
ideas about health, disease and the body find forms of expression in fiction and memoirs.
His most recent work explores the political, aesthetic, and social dimensions of the
representation of physical trauma in literature. His writing has appeared in The Living Handbook of Narratology, Aktuel Forskning. Litteratur, Kultur og Medier, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places. Dr. Goyal received his MD and his PhD in English and Comparative
Literature from Columbia University.
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