Category: Yale Program for Medicine, Spirituality & Religion

The Yale Program for Medicine, Spirituality & Religion is founded upon the belief that healing concerns the wellness of both the body and the spirit. We seek to understand the implications of religious practice, communal support, and intrinsic belief for the health and wellness. We are scholarly in focus, seeking evidence to discern how the worlds of medicine and religion impact one another. We are collaborative in spirit, reaching across Yale University and other institutions to foster dialogue and research.
As scholars and practitioners, we recognize the deep influence that religious and spiritual commitments have in medicine and illness. Religious and spiritual beliefs inform ethical choices, attitudes concerning death and grieving, approaches to suffering and illness, and commitments to justice and fairness. We seek diverse perspectives through collaboration with colleagues from divinity, chaplaincy, public health, legal, and medical communities. This podcast is a collection of our public monthly seminar series. Enjoy!

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Aphasia & Linguistic Neuro-diversity: A personal and theological journey with Dr. John Perry & Christopher Whyte

Aphasia & Linguistic Neuro-diversity: A personal and theological journey with Dr. John Perry & Christopher Whyte

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Dr. Perry is Senior Lecturer in Theological Ethics at St. Andrews University. Mr. Whyte is completing his Phd on Dietrich Bonhoeffer at the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology at St. Andrews University. This presentation describes Dr. Perry’s personal experience in suffering a stroke after a car accident, his road to recovery, and theological reflections on neuro-diversity.

Maximilian Bartel, Going Out, Looking In

Maximilian Bartel, Going Out, Looking In

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Maxi is a internationally-recognized podcaster of Going Out, Looking In, which is “about the big questions of life, personal growth, and spirituality.” His podcast can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/going-out-looking-in/id1660121094

He has interviewed more than 50 thought-leaders from around the world about the good life – psychologists, pastors, spiritual seekers, scholars, and the like. As such, he has amassed an accumulated wisdom, a robust qualitative study, about human flourishing. He also is one of the more warm-hearted, engaging hosts I’ve encountered in the podcast universe.

Creative Nun: perceptions of art and Spirituality

Creative Nun: perceptions of art and Spirituality

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Dr. Kasparova holds two Master’s degrees in Catholic Theology and Art History, as well as her PhD in Fine Art and Theology from Anglia Ruskin University. Presently, she is the Director of Studies at the Faraday Institute of Science and Religion, Cambridge University. She is also a Dominican nun, whose community is based in the Czech Republic. More about her can be found here: https://www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/about/people/dr-pavlina-kasparova/
And at her website: https://www.creativenun.com

The Priest, the Philosopher, the Scientist, and the New Age of Medicine

The Priest, the Philosopher, the Scientist, and the New Age of Medicine

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The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Doolittle is Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale Medical School and Professor of Religion and Health at Yale Divinity School. His talk explores the healer’s identity across the centuries, from the ancient Greek temples, to the anatomy theaters of the Renaissance, and to our present age. He asks the question, “What age of medicine are we in today?”

Chris Oldfield on The Metaphysics of Pregnancy

Chris Oldfield on The Metaphysics of Pregnancy

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Chris Oldfield is a Research Associate at the Faraday Institute of Science and Religion at the University of Cambridge. His talk, “The Metaphysics of Pregnancy” outlines the key issues of “Foster-Gravida Relations.” This work is based upon the working group Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy (B.U.M.P.) based at Kings College, London. For more information, see https://bump.group.