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The
Roger Allan Moore Lecture, hosted by the Department of Social Medicine
and the Center for the Study of Culture and Medicine, was initiated
in 1992. The lectures were dedicated to exploring "Values and Medicine:Ethical,
Religious and Cultural Perspectives." In 1999, Leon Eisenberg presented
a lecture entitled "Should theRight to Grow Old be Rationed? Fundamental
Ethical Values and Unprecedented Demographic Change," in 2001
List of Roger Allan
Moore Lecture Topics
The W.H.R. Rivers
Distinguished Lectures in Social Medicine
are presented in honor of W.H.R. Rivers, a founding figure in the history
of medical anthropology, and are made possible by the Michael Crichton
Fund of the Department of Social Medicine. The lectures are combined
with a one to two day workshop on a central topic in social medicine.
In 1998, Renee Fox presented a lecture entitled "More Than Bioethics
Alone: Critical Reflections on the Relationship between Medicine, Ethics
and Social Science in the Education of Medical Students." Results
of the workshop that followed have been published as an issue of Daedelus
(2000), entitled Bioethics and Beyond. Amartya Sen, who received the
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998, presented the Rivers Lecture
in April of 2000. The lectureship was combined with an international
workshop entitled "Placing Mental Health on the International Health
Agenda."
The George W. Gay Lectures are the oldest endowed lectureship
at Harvard Medical School. Established in 1917, they are quite possibly
the oldest medical ethics lectureship in the United States. Quite remarkable
physicians, scholars and scientists have presented the lectures. Recent
Gay Lecturers have been Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1995), Sissela Bok (1996),
Daniel Callahan (1997), Daniel Federman (1998), and Elie Wiesel (1999)
and Dame Cicely Saunders (2001).
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Thomas Csordas, Roger Allan Moor Lecturer, 2001
Csordas'
Lecture, Healing and the Human Condition: Scenes from the Present Moment
in Navajoland
 Theresa
O'Nell, Roger
Allan Moore Lecturer, 2001
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