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Bringing Big Data to Asylum Studies: Historical Possibilities, Ethical Challenges

Bondurant Hall--Room G100 321 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Dr. Robert C. Allen James Logan Godfrey Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Community Histories Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Sarah E. Almond Assistant Director, Community Histories Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bringing Big Data to Asylum Studies: Historical Possibilities, Ethical … Read more

Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and Its Sensational Patient Cases from Haskell Karp to Dick Cheney

Bondurant Hall -- Room 2025 321 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Shelley McKellar, PhD Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and Its Sensational Patient Cases from Haskell Karp to Dick Cheney Bondurant Hall, Room 2025. Lecture information: Today artificial hearts are a clinical … Read more

Anatomy Day

Wilson LIbrary, Fearrington Reading Room 200 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Drop by to compare what you’ve seen in the gross anatomy lab with historical representations of human anatomy over the centuries. Materials are drawn from holdings at the Wilson Special Collections Library. You don’t want to miss this fun and educational open house event.

Disease and Social Restructuring: A Global Pandemic in Mao’s China

MacNider Hall -- Room 18 333 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Xiaoping Fang Assistant Professor of History, Nanyang Technological University, and Fellow, National Humanities Center Disease and Social Restructuring: A Global Pandemic in Mao’s China MacNider Hall, Room 18. Lecture information: This talk analyzes the dynamics between disease and social restructuring during the global cholera pandemic in Mao’s China between the … Read more

To Feed or Not to Feed: Medical Reversal in Food Allergy Prevention

MacNider Hall -- Room 18 333 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Edward Iglesia, MD, MPH Clinical Fellow in Allergy/Immunology, University of North Carolina Hospitals To Feed or Not to Feed: Medical Reversal in Food Allergy Prevention MacNider Hall, Room 18. Lecture information: This lecture will review the recent history of food allergy prevention. This will include reviewing the epidemiology of food … Read more

Not Born Yesterday: Anti-Cancer Activism in Early 20th Century Latin America

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Raul Necochea, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine Not Born Yesterday: Anti-Cancer Activism in Early 20th Century Latin America REGISTER for this event. Lecture information: This lecture focuses on the case of Peru to explain the emergence and decline of the earliest Latin American … Read more

Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Dan Royles

Dan Royles discusses his book, “To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS” “To Make the Wounded Whole” offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists, including medical professionals, Black gay intellectuals, church pastors, Nation of … Read more

The History of Anti-Vaccination

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Elizabeth Salisbury MS2, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine The History of Anti-Vaccination REGISTER for this event. Lecture information: This talk investigates the origins of the anti-vaccination movement, tracing its roots back to the smallpox vaccine. The anti-vaccination movement will be explored through three lenses: mandatory vaccinations and government control, safety and … Read more

The Doctors and the Black Death: Reconsidering Expertise in an Age of Pandemic

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Dr. Brett Whalen Associate Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill  The Doctors and the Black Death: Reconsidering Expertise in an Age of Pandemic  REGISTER for this event. Lecture: In the popular imagination, backwards and ignorant “medieval people” possessed no means of understanding or trying to combat the Black Death, the fourteenth-century outbreak of … Read more

NEW DATE, April 13th: Student Lightning Talks

NEW DATE: April 13, 12 p.m. (Event was originally scheduled for March 30) Sample the work of current UNC School of Medicine students as they present their research in a lightning talk. Each presentation will be about 5 minutes, challenging participants to distill their work down to its essence. The talks will be followed by … Read more