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NEWS
FROM CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE
May
7, 2007
18th Annual Fraiman Lecture on Medical Ethics:
Robert Jay Lifton, MD, on “Doctors and Torture”
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) will host the 18th Annual Fraiman Lecture on Medical Ethics. The event features Robert Jay Lifton, MD, CHA psychiatrist, a lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and a leading scholar of the psychological dimensions of wartime violence, in a presentation titled “Doctors and Torture.” Dr. Lifton has conducted major research on Nazi doctors as well as torture in Iraq and will discuss the ethics of being a doctor involved in torture.
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Time: 12 p.m.
Location: The Cambridge Hospital
Macht Auditorium
1493 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Cost: Free of charge and open to the public
Contact: Jean Terp of CHA, (617) 665-1018
Cambridge
Health Alliance is a regional healthcare system with three hospitals
and more than twenty primary care practices in Cambridge, Somerville,
and Boston's metro-North communities. As a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance offers medical
residency/training programs and undergraduate learning experiences
in hospital and community settings. Cambridge Health Alliance also
includes the Cambridge Public Health Department, CHA Physician's
Organization (CHAPO), and Network Health, a managed Medicaid and
Commonwealth Care plan.
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Harris
Director Media Relations
Phone: 617-499-8323
Cell: 781-424-3293
Pager: 617-546-8696
aharris@challiance.org
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Cecere
Media Relations Manager
Phone: 617-503-8428
Cell: 617-921-9613
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