Wednesday, 10 April 2013
12:30-1:30 pm
Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
University of Virginia School of Medicine
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A John F. Anderson Lecture
AN ECOLOGY OF MIND: THE LEGACY OF GREGORY BATESON
(WITH LESSONS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE)
Nora Bateson (Gregory Bateson’s daughter), independent filmmaker,
Vancouver BC
Stephen Nachmanovitch PhD (Gregory Bateson’s student), musician and writer, Charlottesville VA
One of the 20th century’s most integrative and influential thinkers and writers, Gregory Bateson (1904‐1980) made important contributions to anthropology, biology, cognitive science, psychiatry, and cybernetics. Offered in conjunction with UVA’s Bateson Symposium later this week (11-12 April), this Medical Center Hour features Bateson’s younger daughter Nora and one of his students, musician and writer Stephen Nachmanovitch. Together, they speak to the legacy of this scientist who was steeped in poetry and art, who insisted that the practice of any art or science requires both rigor and imagination, and who probed the interconnections between human thinking and natural phenomena. What are the insights and lessons here for clinical practice and for those who engage the ill or injured person or seek to understand the processes and pathologies of body and mind?
Co-presented with the Bateson Symposium, Department of Anthropology, UVA
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This program is free and open to the entire university and the public. Health professionals who attend may apply for continuing education credit. Medical Center Hour counts toward first-year medical students’ SIM requirements.
The Medical Center Hour is produced weekly throughout the academic year by the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Our series includes History of the Health Sciences Lectures, which we produce together with Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.
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