"New Perspectives on Health and Healing: Can Science and Religion
Work Together?" will be held on April 11 and 12 in the Winship
Ballroom of the Emory Dobbs University Center. The featured guests
are Dr. Lori Alvord, surgeon and author of The Scalpel and
the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western
Medicine and Traditional Healing, Dr. Richard Selzer, surgeon
and author of The Doctor Stories and The Exact Location
of the Soul, and Dr. Sherwin Nuland, surgeon, medical historian
and author of How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
and the memoir, Lost in America: A Journey with My Father,
Thomas Thangaraj from Emory's Candler School of Theology
and Joyce Flueckiger from Emory's Department of Religion, author
of Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India. Claire Sterk
from the Rollins School of Public Health will serve as synthesizer.
Dr. Alvord will deliver the keynote address, "Ceremony Medicine:
a Navajo Philosophy of Healing" on Friday, 4/11 at 7:30 in the
Winship Ballroom. On Saturday from 9am-2:30pm there will be panel
discussions, followed by lunch with the panelists, table discussions,
and a wrap-up session. Please RSVP to Ben Miller at bmill09@emory.edu
if you plan on attending Saturday's sessions.
This conference is kindly sponsored by the Center for Theology
and the Natural Sciences, the Program in Science & Society, Emory's
Women's Center, the Center for Alternative Medicine, and the Graduate
Division of Religion.
