Professor
and Chair of Medical Humanities
Hershey Medical Center, Hershey,
Pennsylvania
Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:00 p.m.
Allen Auditorium, Arts and Sciences Building
David Hufford, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Humanities, with joint appointments
in Behavioral Science and Family medicine, at the Penn State College of
Medicine, where he is also Director of the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic
Medicine. At the University of Pennsylvania he is Adjunct Professor of
Religious Studies and a faculty member of the Master in Bioethics Program.
Dr. Hufford has taught about medicine and culture, complementary and alternative
medicine, and religion, spirituality and health at the College of Medicine
since 1974. He won a Templeton Foundation Faith
& Medicine Award in 1995, the first year of that program to support religion
and health courses in medical schools, and he has taught that course to
fourth-year medical students since that time. At Penn he has taught courses
in spiritual belief and in alternative medicine since 1979, and currently
leads an initiative to develop a Center for Spirituality, Religion and
Health at Penn, connecting the School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences.
Hufford's research is centered in the ethnographic and phenomenological
study of the beliefs of ordinary people — especially as those beliefs
that are in competition with the positions of official institutions.
This lecture is sponsored by the Student Folklore Society; MU's Center
for Religion, the Professions, and the Public; the Department of Religious
Studies; the Department of English; the Missouri Folk Arts Program; and
the Journal of American Folklore.
