Name: Arthur Frank: “Reading Shakespeare to Respond to Illness"
Start: 2025-03-12T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-12T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Gasson Hall

$Arthur Frank: \u201cReading Shakespeare to Respond to Illness"$

Arthur Frank, scholar of bioethics and narrative medicine, joins the Lowell Humanities Series.
About this Event

Arthur Frank is professor emeritus at the University of Calgary, Canada. Since his retirement in 2013, he has been Professor II at VID Specialized University in Oslo, visiting professor in the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, and Francqui Fellow at the University of Ghent. His books on illness experience, ethics, clinical care, and narrative include At the Will of the Body, The Wounded Storyteller, The Renewal of Generosity, Letting Stories Breathe, and most recently King Lear: Shakespeare’s Dark Consolations as part of Oxford’s “My Reading” series. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and winner of the Society’s medal in bioethics. He has also been recognized with a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Bioethics Society.

Cosponsored by the Boston College Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics.

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The Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, Boston College's Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Provost's Office.