Parr Center for Ethics Fiction writers build new, but never wholly independent, worlds. Readers journey from the real world to the imaginary and return, changed. What, if anything, do the authors of these new worlds owe to their readers, to themselves, to the people and experiences they draw on in their work, to their … Read more
The UNC Department of Anthropology invites you to its Colloquium Event: Ezelle Sanford III – Doctoral Candidate, History of Science, Princeton University Abstract: Following a more than decade-long battle, in August of 1979 the Mayor of St. Louis, the Honorable James Conway, mandated the closure of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital. A relic of Jim … Read more
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Raul Necochea, Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine/Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill "Therapeutic Outcomes Beyond a Cure: Leprosy in 1940s-1960s U.S."
Megan Doerr, M.S., L.G.C. The All of Us Research Program, a keystone of the Precision Medicine Initiative, aims to assemble a cohort of one million or more people to accelerate research and improve health. Central to the program’s aims is ensuring that the cohort is representative of the diversity of those living in the United … Read more
On Thursday Feb 15, at 5 pm, please join us to end the work day with drinks and hors d’oeuvres in “The Doctors Are In,” a talk show-style discussion series between Duke humanities faculty and physicians. This time, surgeon Lola Fayanju and historian Laurent Dubois discuss race and postcoloniality. The parking lots on Flowers behind DGHI … Read more
José Amador, associate professor of global and intercultural Studies (Latin American, Latino/a, and Caribbean Studies) at Miami University, will discuss his fascinating work on health rights and trans activism in Brazil. The discussion is the second installment of the Discovery and Inspiration: Conversations with Scholars series presented in partnership with the Chapel Hill Public Library. … Read more
Trent History of Medicine Lecture Series Presents Gerrit Bos, PHD Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Cologne "Moses Maimonides, medical doctor and author: aspects of his work, medical training, theory, and practice" Room 153, Rubenstein Library, Duke University Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, most commonly known as … Read more
How can we balance our duty to care for patients and families with our duty to protect others from violence? In this presentation, an interdisciplinary panel will explore the nature and scope of workplace violence in healthcare settings in the United States, as well as the institutional duty of health systems to prevent, recognize, and … Read more
Lisa McKeithan, MS, CRC, is Director and HIV/AIDS Researcher at CommWell Health Clinics in Dunn, North Carolina, an award-winning not-for-profit Federally Qualified Health Center. McKeithan is Director of CommWell Health’s NC-REACH program, which serves patients who are both HIV-positive and homeless. The National Rural Health Association named it Outstanding Program of the Year, and McKeithan the Outstanding … Read more
Moral Distress Workshops Beth Epstein PhD RN FAAN, Nursing and Acute and Specialty Care, University of Virginia 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Thursday, March 15, 2018 MacNider 322 *Each workshop 2 hours, registration required, watch for details*
