Session date: 
03/06/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

PRESENTATION TITLE
"Medicine and Humanities"

PRESENTER
Iain Kenyon McGilchrist

PRESENTER BIO
Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine and psychiatry. He is the author of a number of books, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009). In November 2021 his two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World was published by Perspectiva Press. www.channelmcgilchrist.com


VIEWING LOCATIONS

This is a virtual session ONLY

Time: Mar 6, 2025 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

https://teampeople.zoom.us/j/82538306467?pwd=RwVAskYd0W7Q4RkhaWvx2RapPANxfg.1


LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this activity participants should be able to: 

•Recognize the importance of the practice of medicine as both a science and one of the humanities;
•Distinguish that what is measured may matter, but what matters most cannot be measured;
•Demonstrate the place of philosophy for any medical practitioner.

ATTENDANCE / CREDIT
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TRANSCRIPT
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Presenter: 
Dr. Iain McGilchrist
Where did the idea for the course originate?: 
Minnesota
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Where did the idea for the course originate?: 
Minnesota