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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

Student Lightning Talks

This 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 a Q&A at the end. … Read more

Mind-Body Medicine and Black Women’s Clubs in the Era of Jim Crow

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

History of Chagas Disease: Science and Health in Brazil

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