Dr. Laurie Zoloth will present this year’s Boniuk-Tanzman Memorial Lecture in Jewish Medical Ethics from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25 at the Holden Auditorium in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center (520 S. Euclid Avenue) on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.

Her talk, “Jewish Bioethics and the Duties of Medicine: Repairing, Restoring, and Healing in a Broken World,” is free and open to the public. There will be refreshments after the lecture and discussion.

Zoloth directs the Brady Program in Ethics and Civic Life at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. She was founding director of The Center for Bioethics, Science, and Society at Northwestern s Feinberg School of Medicine. She teaches in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, in the Jewish Studies program, and as of Professor of Religious Studies. Zoloth is also an affiliated professor with the University of Haifa.

The Boniuk-Tanzman Annual Lecture on Jewish Medical Ethics began in 1979 and is dedicated in memory of Hyman Boniuk’s concern for people and Jewish thought, in memory of Dr. Joseph Tanzman’s dedication to the propagation of Jewish ethics in the practice of medicine, and ultimately in memory of their spouses Rachel Boniuk and Celia Tanzman.

Medical professionals will have the opportunity to earn continuing education credits for a nominal fee.

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