Monday, October 7, 2013

Medical Center Hour: Five Easy Steps to Metaphysical Fitness

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium 

In this Medical Center Hour, Ms. Levine shares her vision of medicine’s future. But instead of actual medical expertise, she brings her experiences as a patient in search of a diagnosis and a curative path to physical health. To regain metaphysical health, though, she had to abandon Sir Isaac Newton’s clockwork universe and enter a universe that mirrored the randomness, uncertainty, and turbulence of her actual experience. Only quantum physics and chaos theory can make sense of this new universe—and also of medicine today?