Dominican U presents lecture on Chinese Medicine

Dominican University’s Albertus Magnus Society will present a lecture titled “Ethical Issues in Chinese Medicine” by Chia-Feng Chang, the 2010-11 Lund-Gill Chair at Dominican, on Thursday, February 17 at 7:00 p.m. The lecture will be held in the Priory Campus Auditorium, 7200 W. Division Street, River Forest. An expert in the history and philosophy of Chinese science and medicine, Chang will speak about the ways a traditional culture faces changes posed by modern biomedical science. 

Chang is an associate professor in the Department of History at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. She received her doctorate from the department of history at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, U.K. She has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, U.K., and at the University of Chicago’s Morris Fishbein Center for History of Science and Medicine & The Center for East Asian Studies.

The Rosary College of Arts and Sciences has an endowed Lund-Gill Chair that brings to campus an individual of the highest moral and intellectual reputation who can address themes and issues at the heart of the liberal arts and sciences.  Previous chairs have included Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman, Shakespeare scholar David Bevington from the University of Chicago, New York Times journalist and author Stephen Kinzer, and Dominican Professor of Theology Fr. Richard Woods, OP.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on Dominican University’s Albertus Magnus Society, please call (708) 714-9105 or visit the website at http://www.dom.edu/ams.