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Ctr Bioethics: L. Turner, PhD; Stem Cell Mkting
Duke U, Franklin Humanities Inst: Jonathan Katz, et al: Conf: Humanitarianism in Haiti
Wake Forest: Howard Brody, et al: Conf: After the Genome
Bullitt Hist of Med Club: W.W. McLendon & J. Bryan II: Hist Persp on Clinical Advances
Health Affairs, Hlth Ctr & HSL: Escape Fire: Film & Panel
Soc Med Forum: Redfield: Docs w/o Borders & Problem of Triage
2012
Bioethics at UNC Faculty Seminar
Bioethics at UNC Faculty Seminar
Bioethics at UNC Faculty Seminar
Bioethics at UNC Faculty Seminar
WFU Ctr Bioeth Hlt & Soc: K. Montgomery (Northwestern) Pre-Sym Lecture
AOE Faculty Devpt: Lundy Braun: STS in Medical Education
Pediatrics: Paul H. Wise: Global Child Hlth in Conflict Zones
Duke CISSCT Symposium on NeuroEconomics
Philos. & Psychiatry Grp: Sinnot-Armstrong & Summers: Scrupulosity
Pop Ctr Seminar: Amy Tsui: Contracep & Demog
Parr Ctr Ethics: G. Nichol: Poverty & Obligation
Duke Neurohum Rsrch: Catherine Malabou Lecture
Prev Med Seminar: Bill Roper: Role in Deliv Hlthcre:
Prev Med Seminar: PM Journal Club: Int Med & Hlthcre Reform
Research Ethics Grnd Rnds: Jill Fisher: Informed Consent in Phase 1 Trials
Philos & Psychiatry Grp: W. Lycan: Desires Propositional?
Rsrch Ethics Grnd Rnds: Dan Nelson: Comp Rsrch-Rlted Injury
Dept of Women’s & Gender Studies...: Elizabeth Reis: Bodies in Doubt
UNC Ctr for Bioethics: Matt DeCamp, JHU: Realizing the Right to Health
Interdisc Sem, Soc Med & Genetics: Walker & Pardo-Manuel de Villena: ELSI of Mouse Genetics & Genomics
Dept Relig Studies, McLester Sem: Rubenstein: Multiverse Cosmologies...
Neurohum Rsrch: Nima Bassiri: Brain_Historical Devlopmnt
Neurohum Rsrch: S. Hawkins: William James
Hist & Philos of Sci, Tech & Med Reading Group - Gary Gala guest speaker - Descartes-Harvey Controversy
Ctr for Bioethics: Stuart Rennie: Expanding Rsrcher Obligations, Africa
Duke: Boyarsky Lecture in Law, Med & Ethics: Jonathan Haidt: Social Justice & Trust -
Duke Neurohum Rsrch: Nima Bassiri: Lecture
Duke Neurohum Rsrch: Kuusisto & Antonetta: Reading/Discuss.
MEM discussion w/ Nikolas Rose
Prev Med Seminar: Lisa Hightow-Weidman: HIV Prev in MSM
Prev Med Seminar: Zack Moore: Epi Investigations
Ctr for Genomic & Soc., Genomic Newborn Screening seminar - Aaron Goldenberg
ECHO sem: W Powell Hammond: racism & depression & black men
Hettleman lecture: Yang on health disparities
Global Hlth Discuss: Ben Meier: HIV Drugs & Water
Philos Issues in Psychiatry Grp: D. Moseley: Resp for Char & Psychopath
AOE Grand Rounds: Philip Gruppuso: ELSI/STS Perspectives in Medical Education
Med Humanities: Lisa Diedrich: Critical Med Study, Prehistory of AIDS
Repro Justice Grp: Ceriani: Human Rights, Migration & Child Health
MEM discussion w/ Saiba Varma
Pop Ctr Seminar: Linda Burton: Ethnog & Am's Chng Families
Hist. of Med.: S. Harrell: SOM Minority Presence:
2011
Informed Consent in Experimental Medicine: Phase I Trials in Children with Cancer
Topic & Title TBA
Latin Am Political Imaginaries: Harcourt on Gender & Development
Community-based Research Challenges (exact title TBA)
Discussion of Foucault's 1974 Rio Lectures
Documentary: "Sex Positive" re history of "safe sex" - HIV/AIDS
Dr. Frances Sage Bradley: Her Biographer's Dilemma
Gods and Monsters: Toward a Cultural History of Addiction
Duke Symposium on Archives & Race
Duke symposium on science & humanities, honoring Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Enabling Responsible Public Genomics: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
Engaging Communities of Color in Aging Research
Enhancing the Informed Consent Process to Facilitate the Appropriate Inclusion of Perinatal Women in Research
Reading Group for Steven Shapin
The History of the Ivory Tower: A Lecture by Steven Shapin
CPC Research Ethics Seminar
Cutting Up the Cow; Coping with Genomic Information in Medicine
Dilemmas in Care: Communication and Collaboration in Pediatric Settings
Eric Juengst luncheon talk at Duke Hospital
Ethics Committee Rounds: Happ on ethics of communication in critical care
Ethics in Medicine and Research - Talk
Every Patient Tells a Story
Faculty Forum: Cambodian attitudes and mental health on the eve of the Khmer Rouge Trials
Ferrell Prize and Lectureship: "Individual & Population Approaches to Improving the Health of the Public"
Fly high!
Genomics _2011 Ethic Legal Social Implications (ELSI) Congress
Geography Lecture: Dr. Mei-Po Kwan on Health Research
Healthcare Reform: The Question of Universal Care
Historical Problems Posed by the 100th Anniversary of Flexner's Report on Medical Education
History of Fertility Research in Caribbean - Talk
Henrietta Lacks and Current Issues in Medical Ethics
Home-Visiting by Nurses, Physicians, and Physical Therapists in North Carolina, 1950-1965
Images of Illness: The Influence of Causal Claims and Racial Associations on Public Opinion Toward Type 2 Diabetes
CGS Interdisciplinary Seminar: Mara Buchbinder on Expanded Newborn Screening
Center for Genomics & Society interdisciplinary seminar on: African Ancestry Biobank
International Perspectives in Quality: England's National Institute for Clinical Excellence
Interpreting 'Personalized Genomic Medicine': Spins and Implications
Is Nature Enough? Exploring the Ethics of Human Enhancement
Jay Silverman, Harvard SPH, on adolescent sex workers
Jay Silverman, Harvard SPH, on trafficking & other violence against women
Jay Silverman, Harvard SPH, on trafficking & sexual health
Laboratory medicine can have tsunamis, too: the case for simple/rapid HIV RNA testing
Lamaze: An International History
Latin Am Political Imaginaries: Harcourt on Gender & Development
Latin Am Political Imaginaries: Wendy Harcourt on Transnational Body Politics
Latino Migrant Health: Race and the Naturalization of Health Disparities
Lecture & Panel Discussion on Current State of Embryonic Stem Cell Policy
Lecture/Panel in the Medical Humanities
Life Lines:Poetry for Our Patients, Our Communities, Our Selves
Lunch & Learn Workshop: Corporate Social Responsibility
Normal and Maladaptive Responses to Illness
Proposed Changes to Oversight of Human Subjects Research: Your Chance to Design a New IRB System
Lunch & Learn Workshop: Sex Trafficking
Lunch & Learn Workshop: The Cost of Food: an Unholy Alliance?
Lunch & Learn Workshop: Why Can't We Talk About Abortion?
Making Modern Citizens:Politics Cultures &...Social Reform
Matthew Korman talk on thanatopolitics & tobacco control in China
Medical Errors in Hospitals: Cause and Prevention
Medical Ethics as Seen on TV's "House, MD"
MEM Working Group: discussion of Lovell on postKatrina hospitals
Minority health: Cultural resources and thriving despite lower status
Missing Links: Primatology, Eugenics, and the Whitening of the Human 'Race'
Mitchell Symposium: Mary Lawlor on Disparities & Cultural Competence
Moral Economies of Medicine, talk: "Gynecological Intervention and Ecuador's Economy of Corporeal Care"
Moral Economies of Medicine lecture: Rouse on race & health policy
Moral Economies of Medicine Working Group
Moral Economies of Medicine Working Group discussion
Moral Economies of Medicine Working Group discussion
Moral Economies of Medicine Workshop: discuss Kaufman & Fjord article on aging/longevity
National Undergrad Bioethics Conference - Duke
NC German Studies: Alice Kuzniar lecture on Homeopathy & Romanticism
New Perspectives on Feminist Science Studies: DNA, Nation, and the Politics of Belonging
Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture
On Illness: Medicine, Media, Society, and the Experience of Health
Cognitive Neuroscience art installation opening - Amy Caron at Duke
Oral Contraception: From Ancient Plant Extracts to the Birth of the Pill
Outline of the Principles of Teaching and Evaluating Professionalism Using the Experience at McGill as an Example - Grand Rounds Lecture
Over-Prescribed / Under-Medicated: The History and Cultural Politics of Pain Medicine in America
Annual Merrimon Lecture - Palliative Care
Partnering with communities to promote healthy public policy
Pathology at Duke: As I Remember It
Patient-Centered Law and Ethics
Personalized Genomic Medicine and the Rhetoric of "Patient Empowerment" - an interdisciplinary seminar
Personalized Medicine: The Promise and Ethical Challenges
Phillip Thurtle, "The Emergence of Genetic Rationality," discussion @ Duke
Prenatal Genetic Testing: The Conundrum of Choice
Preventive Medicine Seminar
Preventive Medicine Seminar
Preventive Medicine Seminar
Professionalism and Its Relationship to Medicine’s Social Contract - Grand Rounds Lecture
Proposed Changes to Oversight of Human Subjects Research: Your Chance to Design a New IRB System
Psychosocial characteristics and telomere length in women: results from the NIEHS Sister Study
Public talk: Oberlander on health care reform
Racial Disparities in Adverse Birth Outcomes: Exploring the Intergenerational Effect of Disadvantage in Adolescence
Reading Group for Steven Shapin
Recruiting Patients for Pharma: Private-Sector Physicians & Contract Research
Reflecting the Medical Sciences through Art
Reflections on Speciesism
Reflections on the Origins of Human Rights
REGISTRATION_Genomics Conf _2011 Ethic Legal Social Implications (ELSI) Congress
Religion Lecture: Boon on Laredo, Spanish Renaissance mystic/apothecary
Research Ethics Grand Rounds: Ethical Challenges in Community-based Research
Residency Research Day: Senior residents present their research
Robot-Assisted Surgery & the Technopolitics of Care
Sheldon Lecture: Dr Rita Charon on cadavers & narratives
Sheldon Lecture: Montgomery on History of Dissection
Social Medicine Faculty Forum
Transplantation Education Conference Series - "The Moment of Death is a Social Construct: Constructed Now to Maximize Organ Procurement"
Social Medicine Faculty Meeting
Social Science Research on HIV/AIDS in China: Are the ethical issues unique?
"Stigma and AIDS: The Personal and the Political"
Stroke-Related Disability: A Pilot Study of African American Caregivers
Subjectivity and Taste: A Colloquium with Steven Shapin
Symposium: Initiative on Medicine, Literature, and Culture
The Case Against Perfection
The Child Trafficking Crisis in Ghana
The Constitution and HIV/AIDS: the personal and the political
The Dead Ringer: Medicine, Poe, and the Fear of Burial
The Discourse of DNA: What Subjects Say about Participating in Genetic Biobanks
The Empathic Index: Cultural Identification and the Limits of Feeling in Early Twentieth Century Psychiatry
The Ethics of Evidence in Sexual Health: What is State-of-the-Art?
The First Antidepressant: Amphetamine and the Reinvention of Depression, 1930s - 1950s
The Historical Context of the Autism Epidemic - Talk
The HIV Poverty Thesis Re-Examined: Poverty or Inequality as an Underlying Cause of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa?
The International Planned Parenthood Federation in Cold War Peru
The Lady in America's Most Famous Painting
The Melancholic Nun: Women and Mental Health in Renaissance Italy
The South's Secret Weapons: Disease, Environment and the Civil War
The Statistical Sublime: Futurism and Numbers
The Stroke Telemedicine Access Recovery (STAR) Project: Using Innovative Technology to Deliver Care to Underserved Areas
Translation of Gender into Colonial Sciences of the America- Comp Lit Lecture
Transplant Education Conference Series (TECS) Seminar: Record-setting Spanish Organ Procurement Model
Trent Society Lecture: Dr Dan Blazer on Depression & Social Psychiatry
Troubling Suicide: Violence, Women’s Agency, and the Making of a Bourgeois Domesticity in South India
UNC Center for Bioethics OPEN HOUSE!
Uncovering the Life of a 19th Century UNC Medical Student - Talk
Undocumented Immigrants in America: Our National Identity
What do we know about the geographic, epidemiologic, and cultural aspects of pain and the treatment of pain?
When Germs Travel: Contagious Crises Across Time
Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?
Why Don’t We Agree About End of Life Decisions? And What Can We Do About it?
The Statistical Sublime: Futurism and Numbers
Women's Voices and Reproductive Medicine: What Remains
World Poverty, What Can We Do?
Zollicoffer-Merrimon Lecture: Elijah Saunders on Ethnic Disparities in CV Health
Breastfeeding & Feminism Conference: UNC’s Carolina Global BF Institute: The Sheraton-Chapel Hill
AOE Faculty Development: Philip Gruppuso: social perspectives across continuum of med ed
Rsrch Ethics Grnd Rnds: Arlene Davis, et al: Panel: Ethics & Newly Dead
Rsrch Ethics Grnd Rnds: D. Wright: Resp. Conduct Rsrch Trg
NHGRI: Eric Green: Hum Genome Proj 10 Yrs Ltr
Clin Ethics Grnd Rnds: N. Berlinger, Hastings Ctr.
Clin Ethics Grnd Rnds: Joan Krause, UNC Sch. of Law, Dept of Soc Med & UNC-SPH
Philos & Psychiatry Grp: D. Shoemaker: Qualities of Will
Bullitt History of Med Lecture: Lundy Braun: Race, Labor & the History of Spirometry
DIBS/FHI Neurohum Rrsrch Grp: Hawkins & Flanagan: Neuro Divers & Humanities
Wake Forest Humanities Instit Sympos: HerStories: Breast Cancer Narr.
Philosophy & Psychiatry Rsch Group: Discussion w/ Nikolas Rose
Pediatrics: Paul H. Wise: Seminar re Policy/advocacy Implications of Life-course Epid
Pediatrics: Paul H. Wise: Grnd Rnds-Confronting Demise & Rebirth of Am Pediatrics
Fri Infec Dis Conf: A. Rice: Hlth Ref & HIV/AIDS in NC
Prev Med Seminar: Bill Roper: Prev Med's Role in Delivering Healthcare
Minority Health Conference
Duke: Trent Ctr., Humanities in Med : J. Karlawish: How Risk is Remaking Med
Inst for Pharm & Indiv Ther: Jonathan Berg: Navigating the Genome
Public Lecture: Nikolas Rose: "A New Sociology for a New Century?"
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