Dr. Matthew Morrison

Biography

Matthew Morrison, M.D., is a Lecturer in the Humanities program at Yale University, focusing on the intersection of medicine and the humanities. An emergency physician, he graduated from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in 2012 and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Mt. Sinai-Morningside in 2015. He has contributed to various scholarly works, including 'Film Comment' and 'Singh’s Case-Based Neurology', and is involved in educational initiatives such as Yale’s Prison Education Initiative and the Warrior-Scholar Project. His research interests encompass the 'two cultures' debate between Rationalism and Romanticism, and physician-writers such as Bulgakov, Chekhov, and Oliver Sacks. He also delves into philosophical science, particularly the works of Feyerabend and Karl Popper, and explores themes of medical ethics and 'prosaic Romantic' thought as seen in Tolstoy and Wittgenstein.

Research Interests