'The Ethics of Spectacle'

Earlier this month, Karla FC Holloway, the James B. Duke Professor English, professor of law and African-American studies at Duke University delivered the Rosemary Flanigan lecture in bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics, a nonprofit based in Kansas City, Mo.

Richard Payne, the Esther Colliflower Professor of Medicine and Divinity at Duke's Divinity School moderated a conversation between Holloway and Cheryl Brown Henderson, founder of the Brown Foundation, and most famously the litigant in the 1954 landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education.

During her lecture, "The Ethics of Spectacle," Holloway discussed how medical information, typically viewed as private, is forced into the public sphere, causing drama, particularly for minorities and women. She called for a bioethic that gives patients the right to privacy and justice.  

The lecture was named for Rosemary Flanigan, one of the nuns on the front lines during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, known as "Bloody Sunday."

For more information, visit the Center for Practical Bioethics website.