Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Carrie Streeter Ph.D. Candidate, U.S. History, University of California San Diego Mind-Body Medicine and Black Women's Clubs in the Era of Jim Crow REGISTER for this event. Lecture: When asked why Black women formed politically minded clubs during an era of rising racial segregation and oppressive violence, one leader aptly described such … Read more
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Simone Kropf Professor of History of Sciences and Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation History of Chagas Disease: Science and Health in Brazil REGISTER for this event. Lecture: This lecture will explore the history of Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), discovered by the physician Carlos Chagas in 1909 in a poor, rural area of Brazil. The talk will focus on studies … Read more
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Rick Mizelle Associate Professor of History, University of Houston. History of Chagas Disease: Science and Health in Brazil REGISTER for this event. Lecture Diabetes has played a key role in multiple twentieth century movements. This talk focuses on the Civil Rights and Post-Civil Rights era to rethink the importance of chronic disease and social … Read more
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Nicole Barnes Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, History, Duke University On the Importance of History to Medicine, with Chinese Medicine as Exemplary Case REGISTER for this event. Lecture We call our ancestors' ideas about health and healing "theories" and our own ideas in use today "facts." How might we understand the … Read more
Bullitt History of Medicine Club and UNC Center for Bioethics present the Merrimon Lecture: Vaccination and Its Historical Discontents: The Long-Term View on Skepticism and ‘Personal Belief Exemptions’ Elena Conis, Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkely Elena Conis is a writer and historian of medicine, public health, and the environment. Her first … Read more
Bullitt History of Medicine Club and UNC Center for Bioethics present a Merrimon Lecture: Driving Down Infant and Child Mortality: Victories, Dilemmas, and Persistent Disparities Perri Klass, Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University, Co-Director of NYU Florence Perri Klass Perri is the National Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, a national … Read more
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Nancy Tomes Distinguished professor of History, Stony Brook University “Panic in the Streets”: Historical Reflections on Fear-based Media Messaging During Acute Public Health Crises Hybrid event In-person: Mary Ellen Jones Building, Room 3112 Virtual via Zoom: REGISTER for this event Lecture In public health, fear-based campaigns are regarded (rightly so) with … Read more
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Mandy Fowler Doctoral student in English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill The Healing Art: Early Modern Practices of Giving and Receiving Care Lecture Early Modern Economies of Care, explores practices of giving and receiving care as they existed in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. In this presentation, Mandy will share insights … Read more
A special opening reception and keynote to New Scholarship on the US South: A Wilson Library Fellows Symposium. Speaker: Dr. Richard Mizelle, Associate Professor of History, University of Huston Talk Description: The Great Migration has generated a groundswell of scholarship in the past forty-years. From resilient stories of survival in harsh rural and urban landscapes to … Read more
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Janet Downie Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Classics Narrative Medicine as an Ancient Practice Hybrid event In-person: Roper Hall, Room 4302 Virtual via Zoom: REGISTER for this event Lecture In this talk Downie will look at three idiosyncratic examples of medical narrative from the ancient Greek and Roman worlds: … Read more