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The Doctors Are In: Disability Studies in Medical Settings with Dr. Christopher Lunsford & Dr. Marion Quirici

November 7, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Topic: Disability Studies in Medical Settings

The field of disability studies once relied upon a strict division of “the social model of disability” from “the medical model” in its mission to make disabled people the authors of their own stories. The social model, locating disability in inaccessible environments and unaccepting attitudes rather than in the bodies of disabled people, was instrumental in establishing solidarity among people with different kinds of disabilities, and calling for civil rights for this large and heterogenous constituency. It revealed problems with relegating the study of disability to medicine alone, ranging from isolation, stigma, and the unnecessary pathologization of difference, to violent outcomes like wrongful confinements, mistreatment, dehumanization, and wrongful death. Though the articulation of the social model as an alternative to the medical model was foundational to the field, more recently disability studies scholars have been critiquing its shortcomings and proposing more integrative models, such as Alison Kafer’s “political/relational model” and Lennard Davis and David Morris’s “biocultures manifesto.” Ethical medical approaches to disability and chronic health conditions play a critical role in improving the lives and increasing the autonomy of those who seek care. In this “Doctors Are In” conversation, Marion Quirici, a humanist disability studies scholar, and Christopher Lunsford, a pediatric physiatrist, discuss the value of collaborating across disciplinary divides. By cultivating difficult conversations about systemic injustices in the history of medicine, and the ableism within medical culture itself, we can begin to imagine a new model of care founded on principles of democracy and justice.

Date: November 7th, 2019

Time: 5-6:30 PM

Where: Health Humanities Lab – Trent Hall Room 037A

Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be provided

Marion Quirici’s Bio: Marion Quirici is Co-director of the Health Humanities Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Lecturing Fellow in the Thompson Writing Program, and faculty advisor of Duke Disability Alliance. She received her Ph.D. in English in 2016 with a dissertation analyzing representations of disability in twentieth-century Irish literature. Her current research explores how the concept of disability justice revises traditional notions of citizenship, community, and democracy. Through the Health Humanities Lab, Dr. Quirici runs an interdisciplinary faculty working group called the Disability and Access Initiative, which explores how disability studies can revolutionize pedagogy and course content across the disciplines.

Christopher Lunsford’s Bio:

Dr. Lunsford grew up outside of Charlotte, NC, before going to high school in Durham at the NC School of Science and Mathematics. He went on to major in Philosophy as well as being pre-med at Wake Forest University. After medical school at UNC-Chapel Hill, he completed Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at the University of Virginia. He was a fellow in Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He now comes to Duke after several years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia.

As a pediatric physiatrist (physical medicine and rehabilitation), he brings a unique set of skills to Duke. He plans to work with others to expand current programs, such as Cerebral Palsy clinic, to help patients broaden their therapeutic and functional goals. He will also be working to bring new programs and centers to Duke to help expand services in spasticity management, bracing, and the durable medical equipment ordering processes. His research involves medical necessity, virtual reality, adaptive/assistive technology and rehabilitation care coordination.

He lives with his wife, two boys and his in-laws.

Details

Date:
November 7, 2019
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Organizer

Franklin Humanities Institute
Email
fhi@duke.edu
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Venue

Trent Hall Room 037A – Health Humanities Lab
310 Trent Dr.
Durham, NC 27710 United States
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Phone
(919) 681-7760
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