| This project asked: How do humans negotiate mortality? How might a broadly humanistic model for the care of patients in the end of life help doctors prepare for engaging with profound questions of mortality? |
The Living Mortal Project was a broad interdisciplinary collaboration intended to engage with the profound questions surrounding death and catalyze substantive change in both scholarly investigation and cultural reception of mortality. Through primary qualitative research on cancer patients’ experiences of mortality; an innovative workshop series that brings together faculty from diverse disciplinary practices – from Medicine, Archaeology, Art History, Philosophy, and many more; and the creation of a new medical school curriculum module, The Living Mortal Project explored the various ways humans negotiate mortality and help prepare future doctors in a broadly humanistic model for the care of patients in the end of life.
Section of Geriatrics, Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Chicago
Dr. Malec is interested in palliative care in oncology, complex cancer pain and symptom management, symptom management and quality of life in malignant pleural mesothelioma and advance care planning.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Jesse A. Soodalter, MD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. A palliative care specialist, Dr. Soodalter provides specialized outpatient medical care with a focus on relief from the symptoms and stress of cancer and...
Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the College
University of Chicago
David Wray is the author of Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood (Cambridge 2001), a coeditor of Seneca and the Self (Cambridge 2009), and is currently writing Ovid at the Tragic Core of Modernity. His research and teaching interests include Hellenistic and Roman poetry (especially...
