So You Want to Be a Doctor? Medicine as Instrumental Job vs. Sacred Vocation | Dr. Farr Curlin

This lecture was given on February 11, 2021 to the Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Medical School chapters.

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About the Speaker:

Farr Curlin is the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director 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.