Presenters: Ben Doolittle ’94 M.Div., Associate Professor of Religion and Health, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics; Director of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program; and S. Mark Heim ANTS ’76 M.Div., Visiting Professor
For the past three years Dr. Benjamin Doolittle of the Yale Medical School and Dr. Mark Heim of Andover Newton Seminary at Yale have been team-teaching a course on theology and medicine. The course has covered topics from Hildegard of Bingen’s “slow medicine” to the strange immortality of cells from an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks that have fueled countless medical breakthroughs, from the HIV epidemic to the evidence that church attendance increases life expectancy, to reflections on “the lost art of dying.” The fall 2020 edition of this course is giving major attention to the reality that surrounds us all, the COVID 19 pandemic. We are considering how epidemics past have challenged—and changed—the practice of medicine and the practice of faith, and how this epidemic will impact both.”
Hosted by Andover Newton Seminary at YDS
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