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Eric
L. Krakauer, MD, PhD is an Instructor in the Departments of Social Medicine
and Medicine and in the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical
School (HMS).
Dr. Krakauer received a PhD in philosophy from Yale and was Fulbright
Fellow at the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany. He also received
his MD from Yale and served his residency in internal medicine at Yale-New
Haven Hospital. He then completed fellowships in general internal medicine
and medical ethics at Harvard Medical School. During his fellowships,
he held a medical clinic for Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees in conjunction
with the Indochinese Psychiatric Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center.
Within the Department of Social Medicine, Dr. Krakauer is Coordinator
of Medical Education and course director of "Pain and Palliative
Medicine: From Basic Science to Clinical and Ethical Concerns,"
part of the HMS Advanced Biomedical Sciences curriculum. He also directs
the Vietnam-CDC-Harvard AIDS Training Partnership (VCHAP), a multi-faceted
effort to confront the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Vietnam that includes service-learning
experiences for medical students and house officers. He also is a faculty
member of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care.
At Massachusetts General Hospital Dr. Krakauer serves as Associate Director
and Fellowship Program Director of the Palliative Care Service, attending
physician on the Bigelow Medical Service, Chairman of the Life-sustaining
Treatment Policy Committee, and consultant with the Optimum Care Committee
(ethics committee). He is board certified in both internal medicine
and palliative medicine.
Dr. Krakauer's research interests include barriers to optimum care for
terminally ill minority patients, medical and ethical issues in end-of-life
care, cross-cultural medicine, health consequences of racism, and philosophy
of medicine. He has published articles and book chapters in these areas.
His book The Disposition of the Subject: Reading Adorno's Dialectic
of Technology, a study of the relationships between technology, subjectivity
and suffering in the work of the philosopher Theodor Adorno, appeared
recently in the Northwestern University Press series Studies in Phenomenology
and Existential Philosophy.
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