Welcome to the Medical Humanities Interest Group (MHIG) homepage. Founded in the Fall of 2000, MHIG functions to promote the enjoyment of the humanities among medical students. The “humanities” includes a variety of disciplines including the visual arts, philosophy, literature, history and religion. MHIG exists to provide medical students with meaningful interaction with these disciplines. MHIG is not for experts, it is for medical students who have an interest in the humanities alongside their interest in becoming competent physicians. Feel free to contact MHIG with any ideas or suggestions.
FEBRUARY EVENTS:
LECTURE: "The Physician's Vocation: Practicing in the Ways of the Truth."
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Frank Lazarus
DATE: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 12 Noon
LOCATION: C2.106 (near Gooch Auditorium)
LUNCH: Free
The St. Basil Society has invited Dr. Lazarus to give a talk on "The Physician's Vocation: Practicing in the Ways of the Truth." . It will be largely philosophical, reflecting on the vocation vs. career of doctors, as well as Natural Law and morality. Dr. Frank Lazarus holds a Ph.D. in classics, and is President Emeritus of the University of Dallas, and former Vice-President of both University of Marquette and University of San Diego. (quoted from a Basil Society e-mail.)
LECTURE: Ethics Grand Rounds-"Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society."
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Leon Kass, Chief of President Bush's Council on Bioethics
DATE: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 12 Noon
LOCATION: D1.602 (South Campus)
Don't miss this lecture from an important figure in bioethics! In addition to serving on the President's Council on Bioethics, Dr. Kass is Addie Clark Harding Professor at the University of Chicago, and a Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. He has authored many books and articles, including Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs; The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature; The Ethics of Human Cloning; Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (2000, with Amy A. Kass); Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics ; and The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis .
http://www.bioethics.gov/about/kass.html
LECTURE: Psychiatry Grand Rounds - “Rethinking Care for Persons with Disorders of Sex Development”
GUEST SPEAKER: Katrina Karkazis, Ph.D., MPH
DATE: Wednesday, February 10, 2010; 12:00-1:15 PM
LOCATION: NG3.112 (Auditorium at 6001 Forest Park/North Campus)
Dr. Katrina Karkazis is an anthropologist from the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics who has studied the controversies over treatment of infants with intersex conditions. She is author of Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience, This should be an interesting lecture for those interested in medical anthropology and gender issues. Her biography is listedhere.
LECTURE: "Comics, Culture, and Psychopathology"
GUEST SPEAKER: John Sadler, M.D.
DATE: Monday, February 22, 2010; 12:00-1:00 PM
LOCATION: D1.104 (South Campus)
LUNCH: For the First 30
Dr. John Z. Sadler, will share his observations about the psychopathology of comic book characters. Curious about a psychiatrist's take on Wonder Woman? Here's your chance to find out. In addition to being faculty sponsor for MHIG, Dr. Sadler is also Daniel W. Foster Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Psychiatry, and author of several books, including the just-published The Virtuous Psychiatrist.
LECTURE:"Bad Blood: A Brief History and Ethics of Perioperative Infection Control" (Surgery Grand Rounds)
GUEST SPEAKER: John Sadler, M.D.
DATE:Wednesday, February 24, 2010; 9:00 AM
LOCATION: D1.602 (South Campus)
If you're interested in hearing the dirty history of infection control in surgery, Dr. Sadler will be giving surgery grand rounds on that topic at 9 AM!
MAY EVENTS:
PERFORMANCE:A Night at the Opera - Madame Butterfly
DATE:Thursday, May 20, 2010, 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201
TICKETS: $28/person,(normally $37-$59) reply back to Jennifer Harris or Ankit Garg if you want to purchase a ticket, you have until February 1st. Minimum requirement of 20 people to get the student discount price.
Dallas Opera website:http://www.dallasopera.org/the_season/091005-index.php
"A masterpiece about love and loyalty on the far side of the world, our season finale is the heartbreaking story of a naive Japanese girl given in marriage to a U.S. naval officer at the turn of the last century. If you are looking for an extraordinary musical experience filled with passion, pageantry, pathos and romance your search ends here, in the hills high above Nagasaki Harbor."
E-mail: jennifer.harris@utsouthwestern.edu and ankit.garg@utsouthwestern.edu for more information.
MHIG Leadership Contact Information:
Jennifer Harris, Class of 2013
jennifer.harris@utsouthwestern.edu
Ankit Garg, Class of 2013
ankit.garg@utsouthwestern.edu
Evan Wilgama, Class of 2010
evan.walgama@utsouthwestern.edu
