Begando Lecture: Medicine in Horror, Horror in Medicine

The Department of Medical Education in the UIC College of Medicine invites you to attend the 2025 Joseph S. Begando Lecture presented by Professor Catherine Belling of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Following the lecture, there will be a reception outside the Moss Auditorium. The event will also be live streamed on Zoom.

Catherine Belling is an associate professor of medical education in the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Her first book, “A Condition of Doubt: The Meanings of Hypochondria” (Oxford University Press, 2012), won the 2013 Kendrick Book Prize (Society for Literature, Science and the Arts). She has published in journals such as Narrative, Academic Medicine, Genre and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine and was editor in chief of the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press) from 2013 to 2018. Her current book project explores the place of horror (both affect and genre) in medicine.

The Joseph S. Begando Lecture is sponsored by the Department of Medical Education and brings distinguished scholars in the health humanities to the UIC community to explore pressing issues related to health, medicine, disability and illness.

The Begando Lecture is co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Disability and Human Development.

Please RSVP.

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For more information, contact David Ansari at daa@uic.edu.