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
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 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
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
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