Johns Hopkins University

The Thomistic Institute at the Johns Hopkins University and McHugh Program for Human Flourishing present a lecture by Prof. Lydia Dugdale of Columbia University titled “The Lost Art of Dying: Medicine and the Approach to Mortality.”

This lecture will be livestreamed over Zoom. Register below to receive the Zoom credentials. The password will be sent out shortly before the event.

Friday, November 6, 2020

12:00 PM

About the speaker: Lydia Dugdale MD, MAR (Ethics), is associate professor of medicine and director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she was Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at Yale School of Medicine. She is an internal medicine primary care doctor and medical ethicist. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of the forthcoming The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom (HarperOne, 2020). She lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.