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UID:https://www.otago.ac.nz/bioethics/news/past-events/bioethics-seminar-echoes-and-replies
URL:https://www.otago.ac.nz/bioethics/news/past-events/bioethics-seminar-echoes-and-replies
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20170904T130000
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SUMMARY:Bioethics Seminar: Echoes and replies
DESCRIPTION:These thoughts arise from teaching involving poetry in a humanities selective in the 3rd year of the MBChB degree here at Otago.  I start with a review of various attempts to credit poems with usefulness, a view I've argued against, and say why I'm not inclined to change my mind.  But then, I look at the recent teaching I did, and ask what emerged from that. I agree, first, that poets do make truth claims (including about truth itself); but I also found myself drawn into the way in which one poem may echo another – a conversation among texts which opens them up to reinterpretation.  For example, I consider a possible conversation between TS Eliot's The Journey of the Magi and Hone Tuwhare's Heemi.  What does this tell us about poetry and its role in medical education? Speaker: Neil Pickering 
LOCATION:Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street).  Also video-linked Christchurch and Wellington.
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