“White Trauma: Creating Space for White People’s Vulnerability with The Hopes of Undoing the Perpetuation of Structural/Systemic Racism" | HMC Ethics November Forum

Sherronda Jamerson presents how racism, at its most basic level, is a lens though which people interpret, naturalize, and reproduce inequality. She explains that racism is not a “white” issue it is a systematic/structural issue designed to keep in place white cultural dominance. Learn why this system has caused harm to us all.

OBJECTIVES:

1) Maintaining openness and moving forward.

2) Learn how trauma and stress can invade the body and skew perception.  

3) Increase awareness of how unconscious or unspoken racism can compromise discussions and outcomes 

Legal Updates | HMC Ethics September Forum

Her presentation is about Legal Updates regarding Beginning of Life Issues and a small discussion afterwards.

Patricia C. Kuszler joined the faculty of the School of Law at the University of Washington in 1994 and is a Charles I. Stone Professor of Law.

In addition to her law faculty appointment, Professor Kuszler is an Adjunct Professor in the UW School of Medicine (Department of Bioethics and Humanities), the School of Public Health, and core faculty in the University's Institute for Public Health Genetics.

Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? Medicine, Chaplains and Healing the Whole Person

Dr. Klitzman will draw on in-depth interview research to examine how, given the political and religious polarization in our nation today, patients and family members from a wide range of backgrounds -- from evangelical to agnostic, atheist and 'nothing in particular' -- seek and find sources of meaning, connection and hope when facing serious medical illness.

“White Trauma: Creating Space for White People’s Vulnerability with The Hopes of Undoing the Perpetuation of Structural/Systemic Racism" | HMC Ethics November Forum

Please join us on Wednesday, November 13th at 12pm with Sherronda Jamerson.

Sherronda Jamerson presents how racism, at its most basic level, is a lens though which people interpret, naturalize, and reproduce inequality. She explains that racism is not a “white” issue it is a systematic/structural issue designed to keep in place white cultural dominance. Learn why this system has caused harm to us all.

OBJECTIVES:

1) Maintaining openness and moving forward.

2) Learn how trauma and stress can invade the body and skew perception.