Virtual Calvin January Series: Lydia Dugdale

Dr. Lydia Dugdale, The Lost Art of Dying: Ethical Considerations in Facing Our Mortality

Lydia is an internal medicine primary care doctor and a medical ethicist. She’s the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Professor of Medicine nd Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and she's also the Co-Director of Clinical Ethics at New York-Presbyterian Milstein Hospital. Her scholarship focuses on end-of-life issues, medical ethics, and the doctor-patient relationship.

In her new book, The Lost Art of Dying, Dugdale offers insight and thoughtful guidance on how to die well. She guides readers to recover their sense of finitude, confront fears, accept how bodies age, develop meaningful rituals, and involve communities in end-of-life care.

Dugdale is also the author of Dying in the 21st Century. And she previously worked at Yale University as the associate director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding co-director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion.

The January Series is a FREE 15-day award-winning lecture series that takes place each year at Calvin University.  The series aims to cultivate deep thought and conversations about important issues of the day, to inspire cultural renewal and make us better global citizens in God's world. We are thankful to share this special gift with our local, regional, and global community, thanks to our underwriters.