How do health care providers make decisions to participate or not in medical situations where they may be at personal risk? The recent Ebola outbreak brought this question directly into our professional lives, but it is not the first such challenge, and it will not be the last. This Symposium sought to address this complex question and engage an interprofessional audience through 1) observations and commentary from the history of medicine, 2) insights from medical ethics, and 3) reflective improvisational theatre. The following videos attempt to capture some of flavor of this session.
DUTY TO CARE
Presented by: James O. Ballard, M.D., Professor of Humanities Medicine and Pathology
Improvisational Theatre Presentation
Presented by: Katherine Burke, M.F.A.
Consultant, Facilitator, and Instructor in Theatre for Social Change, Acting, & Voice
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University
“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future rather than just waiting for it.” – Augusto Boal
For more than decade, Katherine Burke has been using theatre and the arts to help communities know their histories and challenges, transform their collective thoughts, and build their futures through concrete action plans. Working with teachers, teens, prisoners, health care workers, and more, she combines Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, verbatim theatre, and other arts to build a path from the past to a just and sustainable future.
Burke is the current president of Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, Inc. (PTO). She develops Medical Humanities curriculum for Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
CONVERSATIONS IN REGARDS TO ETHICS
Facilitated by: Rebecca Volpe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities
Co-Director, Clinical Ethics Consultation Service, Director of Course Integration, Department of Humanities
Please feel free to contact the Kienle Center if you have any questions or suggestions.
Thank you,
Daniel R. Wolpaw, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Humanities,
Director, The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine