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Department of Medical Education

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May 1 2025

MEDICINE IN HORROR / HORROR IN MEDICINE or “It was always the scene with the lumbar needle and not the exorcism”

May 1, 2025

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Location

Moss Auditorium, College of Medicine Research Building

Address

909 S Wolcott Ave, Select

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2025 Begando Lecture promotional flyer featuring photo of speaker Professor Catherine Belling

The Department of Medical Education invites you to attend the 2025 Joseph S. Begando Lecture presented by Professor Catherine Belling of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

 

Join us May 1st, 2025, at 1:30pm 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 Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Disability and Human Development.

Additional Details

Directions, parking, and places to stay: https://admissions.uic.edu/book-visit/directions-parking-and-places-stay

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Contact

David Ansari
daa@uic.edu

Date posted

Mar 5, 2025

Date updated

Mar 5, 2025

Speakers

Catherine Belling | Associate Professor of Medical Education

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 University Press, 2012), won the 2013 Kendrick Book Prize (Society for Literature, Science and the Arts). She has published in journals such as Narrative, Academic Medicine, Genre and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine and was editor-in-chief of the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press) from 2013 to 2018. Her current book project explores the place of horror (both affect and genre) in medicine.