Columbia University’s Dr. Lydia Dugdale spoke to a crowded MacKay lecture hall Thursday on a subject considered taboo by some: the art of dying. Dugdale is the associate professor of medicine at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons as well as director of the Center for Clinical Medicine. In addition to her positions.
On June11, The Jewish Center Hanno Mott Lecture on Jewish Ethics presented an armchair conversation on “The Art of Dying Well: Choices to Make at the End of Life.” “It was Hanno’s vision to put Jewish ethics into conversation with general ethics.