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About Farr Curlin

Farr A. Curlin, MD, is an associate professor of medicine and the co-director of the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago.

Medicine's Dance with Death
by on November 16th, 2012

A physician-philosopher argues that modern medicine is oriented toward the dead body because it is no longer informed by an ultimate purpose for human existence.