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Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds: What We Talk About When We Talk About Surgery

4008 Old Clinic Auditorium

Margaret L “Gretchen” Schwarze, MD, MPP, FACS Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Co-hosted with the Department of Surgery     All are welcome to attend this session with Dr. Schwarze who will discuss her empirical work on patient-surgeon communication, including exploration of surgical informed consent, shared decision making and interventional … Read more

Assisting Death in America: A Cultural Account of a New Medical Frontier

Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2002

Mara Buchbinder, PhD, UNC Center for Bioethics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lunch provided at noon. Talk begins at 12:10pm. Legislative support for medically assisted dying in the United States has risen steadily in recent years. Eight US jurisdictions currently authorize physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to a mentally competent, terminally … Read more

Talk: psychic surgery in Filipino Spiritism

UNC’s FedEx Global Ed Center (Rm 1009)

Spirits in a New Age: Philippine Centers of the Global Esoteric In the variegated landscape of Filipino paranormal practice, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery.  A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner, or espiritista, usually male, operates on the body of the patient without anaesthesia … Read more

Death Drives, or Thinking with the Corpse

Speaker(s): Anne Allison, Sinan Antoon, Elizabeth Davis, Robert Desjarlais, Harry Harootunian, Ranjana Khanna, Reza Negarestani (by Skype), Adam Rosenblatt, and Annabel Wharton Description We will consider, in the conference, the corpse anthropologically, theoretically, and through the visual and literary arts to engage it as an object of serious inquiry. What does thinking with the corpse enable? … Read more

FILM SCREENING: RESILIENCE

Bondurant Hall, G100

https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/wp-content/uploads/sites/462/2018/10/Oct-23-Screening-Resilience.pdf

The State of Transgender Health at UNC

4008 Old Clinic Auditorium

https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/wp-content/uploads/sites/462/2018/10/Oct-26-State-of-Transgender-Health-Poteat.pdf