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Health Humanities Grand Rounds with Dr. Jessica Barnhill
Health Sciences Library“A Recipe for Success: Hotspotting, Integrative Health and the Quadruple Aim” Wednesday, January 24 3:30-4:40pm Health Sciences Library, Room 527 Light refreshments provided! Jessica Barnhill is a postdoctoral fellow in the Program on Integrative Medicine in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research interests draw on her clinical … Read more
Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series: African Americans in Civil War Medicine
Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2003Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine Professor of History and Medicine Duke University Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:00-1:00 pm Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2003 Lunch provided at NOON Talk begins at 12:10 pm Lecture Hall 2003 is one floor directly above the main lobby of Duke … Read more
Ethics in Fiction: Sam Graham-Felsen in Conversation with Danielle Christmas
Anne Queen Lounge, Campus Y buildingParr 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
Vision(s) of Progress: Closing Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, MO
Alumni Hall 308The 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
Therapeutic Outcomes Beyond a Cure: Leprosy in 1940s-1960s U.S.
UNC Health Sciences Library Room 527Bullitt 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."
Research Ethics Grand Rounds: Developing a Scalable Consent for Diverse Participant Engagement
Bondurant Hall, G100Megan 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
The Doctors Are In
Duke University Trent Hall LabOn 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
NHC: The Right to Health and Trans Activism in Brazil
Chapel Hill Public LibraryJosé 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
Moses Maimonides, Medical Doctor and Author: Aspects of His Work, Medical Training, Theory, and Practice
153 Rubenstein Library, Duke UniversityTrent 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