Dr. Patrick T. Smith speaks at the 35th Annual Wiese Lecture in Ethics and Medical Humanities

As the semester winds down, Duke professors are as busy as ever. On November 12th, Dr. Patrick T Smith, PhD, M.Div presented at the 35th Annual Wiese Lecture in Ethics and Medical Humanities for Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. His talk entitled “Racialized Imagination: What the Humanities Can Offer the Clinical Arena," explored how we can learn from art, literature, and music to overturn the inequities resulting from systemic racism.

Dr. Smith serves as an Associate Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Bioethics in Duke's Divinity School and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Instiute for Ethics. His work studies bioethics, social ethics, Black Church studies, and philosophical theology. More information on the event can be found here.