Profs & Pints Baltimore: Doing Well When Unwell

Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “Doing Well When Unwell,” on drawing from philosophy to cope with what ails us, with Drew Leder, M.D., professor of both western and eastern philosophy at Loyola University Maryland and author of The Healing Body: Creative Responses to Illness, Aging, and Affliction.

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It’s part of the human journey that sometimes our body “betrays” or challenges us and we can no longer take our health fully for granted. Such setbacks, as well as chronic conditions, can disrupt our relationships to our body, to others, to our experience of lived space and time, and to even to our identity and sense of meaning.

Explore how to deal with such bodily challenges existentially as well as medically with Dr. Drew Leader, an internationally known scholar who has written several books on bodily experience and its implications for philosophy.

He’ll discuss 20 different strategies for coping creatively with bodily challenges—falling under broad categories such as “escaping the body,” “embracing the body,” or “remaking the body”—and their benefits and drawbacks. You’ll get a better understanding of which ones you are employing already and which ones might work better for you.

His talk will deeply engage with the legacies of continental philosophy while also drawing insights from the traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Both your mind and your body might be better off for your having attended. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Bar doors open at 5 pm. The talk starts at 6:30).

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