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🗓️ 14 November 2024
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This lecture was given on September 15th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies.
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About the Speaker:
Stephen Meredith (University of Chicago) is a professor of Pathology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Neurology. He is also an associate faculty member in the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has published more than 100 journal articles, focusing on the biophysics of protein structure. Much of his work has been the application of solution and solid-state NMR to the study of amyloid proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease. His teaching includes courses to graduate students in biochemistry and biophysics, medical students, and undergraduates and graduate students in the humanities, including courses on James Joyce’s Ulysses, St. Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Dostoevsky (focusing on Brothers Karamazov), Thomas Mann and David Foster Wallace. He is currently working on a book examining disease and the theological problem of evil. Other current writing projects include a study of James Joyce and the problem of evil.
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0:26.6 | Thank you. |
0:27.6 | Thank you very much. |
0:28.6 | So this is a talk, although I wrote it for this retreat, it's my obsession, so I could have |
0:36.6 | probably done it if you woke me at 3 in the morning and told me to talk about this so I could have probably done it. If you woke me at three in the |
0:38.7 | morning and told me to talk about this, I probably could have done so. It's really about human |
0:44.1 | fragility and vulnerability, and it's not just human, as you'll see. If it really were true |
0:50.5 | that we're only machines, then disease and death would be unproblematic. |
0:56.8 | You throw away a machine that doesn't work. |
0:59.6 | Machines don't last forever. |
1:01.1 | They break. |
1:02.6 | Our bodies might be machine-like in some respects, but that doesn't help us when we think of |
1:09.0 | ourselves as people. |
1:10.8 | So let me start with an anecdote. |
1:12.4 | This is the outline of the talk. |
1:13.9 | We have a lot to cover. |
1:15.9 | Okay. |
1:17.0 | So first, an anecdote. |
1:18.6 | I was a very, very green medical student on the medical wards. |
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