Lectures & Lecturers


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The 2012 Thelma Shobe Lectureship

Sacred Stories as Companions to Pain, Suffering, and Care
Arthur W. Frank, PhD
Professor, Department of Sociology,
     University of Calgary

Thursday, May 24, 2012
Lecture:  12:15 - 1:30 p.m.   Cole Hall Auditorium
      Medical Sciences Bldg. ('S' Bldg.)
      513 Parnassus Ave., UCSF
Reception:  3:30 - 5:00 p.m.,
      School of Nursing Bldg. — Mezzanine

Abstract:  Sophocles's penultimate play, Philoctetes, exemplifies how a sacred story can be a good companion to both ill people and those who care for them. Philoctetes depicts a man with a debilitating injury who has spent ten years marooned on a desolate, uninhabited island. Yet when help comes, he refuses it--for good reasons. The play poses dangerous questions about professional practice and the goals of healing. The resolution of these questions presents an ideal of the relationship between persons who suffer and those who offer care.


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The 2011 Thelma Shobe Lectureship

Shining in Practice:
Meaning and Excellence in Health Care”

Hubert L. Dreyfus, PhD

With Response by Patricia Benner, RN, PhD

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Toland Hall Auditorium (UCH Bldg.)
UCSF Parnassus Campus
Reception 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.,
School of Nursing Bldg. — Mezzanine


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The 2010 Thelma Shobe Lectureship

Living the “Good” Life:
Spirituality, Ethics, and Integrity

Carol Taylor, RN, MSN, PhD

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Cole Hall Auditorium (Medical Sciences Bldg.)
UCSF Parnassus Campus


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The 2009 Thelma Shobe Lectureship

The Pedagogical Imperative in the Health Sciences: The Challenges of Professional Formation”
Lee S. Shulman

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Room #HSW-303 (Health Sciences West Tower)
UCSF Parnassus Campus


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The 2008 Thelma Shobe Lectureship

"Rediscovering the Joy of Practice"
Daniel Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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The 2007 Thelma Shobe Lectureship

"Spirituality, Medicine, Ethics:
   Uneasy Partners"

Margaret E. Mohrmann, MD, PhD

UCSF Parnassus Campus, Room #HSW-302
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

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In the summer of 2005, Thelma Shobe Cook endowed the Thelma Shobe Endowed Lectureship in Ethics and Spirituality with this Mission Statement:

[The] Thelma Shobe Endowed Lectureship will bring to the attention of students, faculty, and staff of the University of California, San Francisco relevant and current research and scholarship between and among the fields of ethics, spirituality, theology, religion, science, and health across the course of life.

The lectures will not only augment and enhance classroom, clinical, and laboratory instruction but will also be supportive to those currently providing direct patient care.
As the expanding power of science and technology transforms the life of human beings and expands power over life and disease, the Lectureship will provide an opportunity for faculty, students, and health-care providers to consider the relevant ethical and spiritual implications.

- Thelma Shobe Cook

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