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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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