Virtual Program
From 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Eclectic physicians practiced kindly medicine. In modernity, one expects physicians to treat their patients with compassion, however, for Eclectics kindly medicine meant far more than being nice? The phrase encompassed their belief in the inclusivity of all who were financially and intellectually able to attend and matriculate from Eclectic medical colleges. Then, once a practicing physician, Eclectics were expected to treat their patients, regardless of race, gender, or class, with dignity, respect, and compassion. This approach was vastly different than the principles driving Allopathic medicine, which believed in the mechanization of the body and the reduction of individuals intellectual and emotional capacities based upon their socially constructed categories of race, gender, and class.
Free and open to the public. Reservations Required.
Dr. Welling Gregg is a medical humanities and social justice scholar, who focuses on the intersection of race, gender, class, sexuality, and ability in American Medicine, Pharmacy, Public Health and Bioethics. She is excited to begin her new position as a senior associate lecturer in The College of Pharmacy at The Ohio State University.