"Medicine is the most humane of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities"
Edmund Pellegrino, Humanism and the Physician
(Knoxville: Univ of Tennessee Press, 1979)
Mission Statement
Our mission is to advance education, research, and service concerning ethics and humanities in health care.
Ongoing/Upcoming Events
Items of Interest:
Hospital Drive: A Journal of Reflective Practice in Word & Image
15 September 2009, Tuesday evening, 7:00-9:30 pm, Old Cabell Hall Auditorium
THEATER OF WAR@UVA
Addressing the Human Costs of War, Reintegrating Warriors into Civic Life
Bryan Doerries, Theater of War, New York NY
Actors, a panel, and audience responses
Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public
Life, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, History of the Health
Sciences Lecture Series, and Buckner W. Clay Endowment for the
Humanities, UVA