Joseph S. Begando Lecture: Medicine in Horror/Horror in Medicine, “It was always the scene with the lumbar needle and not the exorcism”
May 1, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Location
UIC College of Medicine Research Building, Moss Auditorium
Address
909 S Wolcott Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
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Join the Department of Medical Education at the 2025 Joseph S. Begando Lecture presented by Professor Catherine Belling of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on May 1st, 2025, 1:30 pm in the Moss Auditorium (College of Medicine Research Building, 909 S Wolcott Ave).Reception to follow outside the Moss Auditorium. The event will also be live streamed on Zoom.
The Joseph S. Begando Lecture is sponsored by the Department of Medical Education and brings distinguished scholars in the health humanities to the UIC community to explore pressing issues related to health, medicine, disability, and illness.
The Begando Lecture is co-sponsored by the UIC Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Disability and Human Development.
Catherine Belling | Associate Professor of MedicalEducation
Catherine Belling is an Associate Professor of Medical Education in the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Her first book, A Condition of Doubt: The Meanings of Hypochondria (Oxford UniversityPress, 2012), won the 2013 Kendrick Book Prize (Society for Literature, Science and the Arts). She has published in journals such as Narrative, AcademicMedicine, Genre and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine and was editor-in-chief of the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns HopkinsUniversity Press) from 2013 to 2018. Her current book project explores the place of horror (both affect and genre) in medicine.
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Date posted
Mar 19, 2025
Date updated
Mar 19, 2025