Celebrating and Defending the Freedom to Care

Farr Curlin, MD, is the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities in the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine; Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School; and former Director of the Arete Initiative in Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics. Before moving to Duke in 2014, he founded and was Co-Director of the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago. At Duke, Dr. Curlin practices hospice and palliative medicine, and he works with colleagues across the university to develop opportunities for education and scholarship at the intersection of theology, medicine and culture. He has authored more than 130 articles and book chapters dealing with the moral and spiritual dimensions of medical practice. His work focuses on the relevance of religious ideas and practices for the doctor-patient relationship, the moral and professional formation of clinicians, and care for patients at the end of life.

RESOURCES

• Give to CMDA
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• CMDA National Convention
• “Professional, Not Provider—Please!” by Margaret Cottle, MD
• CMDA Today
• The Way of Medicine by Dr. Farr Curlin and Dr. Christopher Tollefsen
• Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School
• Faith Prescriptions
• Transgender Mandate
• CMDA Advocacy Team