Daniel B. Hinshaw, Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Michigan, presents his research project to an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, and scientists comprised of fellows, guest faculty, and students.
Professor Hinshaw’s earlier interests have included the basic mechanisms of cell injury and death with a focus on the contribution of the cytoskeleton to this process. More recently, his clinical research interests have focused on care at the end of life, spiritual and moral distress in advanced illness, and complementary therapies in the relief of pain and suffering. He is currently exploring the relationship between a central Christian theological concept—the voluntary kenosis or self-emptying of God in the incarnation of Christ—and the involuntary “kenosis” experienced by each human person through the process of aging, functional decline, and death. He seeks to demonstrate that this concept is directly relevant to our culture on multiple levels, including public policy debates over limited health care resources, as well as bringing meaning, value, and quality to individual human lives in the context of chronic illness, suffering, and death.
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Originally published at ndias.nd.edu.