Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity, and Community

February 9, 2021 - 12:00pm

Patrick T. Smith, PhD
Associate Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Bioethics
Duke Divinity School
Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

and

Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD
President, The Hastings Center

Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has made longstanding, seemingly intractable inequities painfully visible. In addition to widespread suffering, members of African American and LatinX communities are dying at three times the rate of those in White communities, and there is growing momentum for racial reckoning not seen since the 1960s.

Drs. Smith and Solomon will explore how insights afforded by Martin Luther King and the 20th century civil rights movement might help redress today’s widespread suffering and health inequities. How can values like dignity, solidarity, community (or what King termed the “beloved community”) be useful today? What can we do to acknowledge King’s notion of an “inescapable network of mutuality?”

View online here.

This Daniel Callahan Annual Lecture is supported by generous gifts from The John and Patricia Klingenstein Foundation and The Andrew and Julie Klingenstein Family Foundation

Location and Address

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