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May 2019
ReMed – Reimagine Medicine
The goal of ReMed is to foster the character, imagination, and practices needed to work effectively in contexts of human suffering. Interactive classes in history, ethics, self-care, and the arts, paired with hospital shadowing experiences, allow participants to learn from leaders and practitioners across many disciplines and to explore a variety of paths to health and healing. The curriculum uses graphic art, music, expressive writing, puppetry, movement, improvisation, and mindfulness to explore themes often ignored in traditional medical education.…
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Arete Medical Ethics Summer Seminar
This seminar invites students to examine the central ethical questions that arise in the everyday practice of medicine and to interpret those questions through a moral framework drawing from both natural law and medicine’s traditional orientation toward the patient’s health. This framework will be contrasted with principlism and consequentialism as participants consider what sort of practice medicine is, whether it has a rational end or goal, and how medicine contributes to human flourishing. The seminar will consider common clinical ethical…
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Arete High School Summer Seminar in Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion
The “Arete Summer Seminar in Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion at Duke University” will aim to prepare high school students with a “tool kit” for approaching these subjects in college, offering them a roadmap of sorts. Plato and Aristotle will be primary interlocutors along with a number of other great minds. The seminar will examine the meaning of virtue, the substance of human nature, the question of human flourishing, the metaphysics of reality, and the nature of “truth.” Students will also discuss the…
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