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Rabbi Burton S. Visotzky and Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., are the invited "outside lecturers" at APA's annual meeting this year in Toronto.
Visotsky will present the lecture "The Dysfunctional Family as Moral Exemplar: Studying Genesis" on Tuesday, June 2, at 11 a.m. At 2 p.m. that same day, Nuland will present his lecture, "Ward Stories: Writing About Medicine."
Both sessions are part of the "Day of Creativity" series planned by APA President Herbert S. Sacks, M.D. (Psychiatric News, April 17).
Visotzky holds the Nathan and Janet Appleman Chair in Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and a visiting fellow and life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
Visotzky is the author of three scholarly books and is currently editing and writing for a volume of Lectures in Jewish History and Literature to be published in Russian by the Russian State University of the Humanities Press. It will be the first book in Jewish studies ever published by the Russian state.
With Bill Moyers, Visotzky developed 10 hours of television for PBS in 1996 on the Book of Genesis, serving as consultant and a featured on-screen participant. His newest book, The Road to Redemption, will be published in the fall.
Nuland is a clinical professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, where he has been studying since starting medical school in 1951 and teaching since 1962. At a young age he also became interested in history and gradually taught himself to be a medical historian.
After contributing to the literature in medical history for some years, he wrote Doctors: The Biography of Medicine, the story of the profession told in the form of biographies of 14 of its most prominent contributors. In 1994 he published How We Die, a study of the modern way of death, which became a bestseller.
Growing out of his interests in history, human biology, ethics, and the nature of humanity, he undertook a wide-ranging study of all of these subjects, resulting in his latest book, The Wisdom of the Body.