A Panel Presentation Respect for patient autonomy is a key principle of health care ethics, but what does it require? In this panel presentation, we examine the ethical importance of respect for autonomy beyond simply abiding by the preferences of competent patients. We first address the conceptual nuances of autonomy that are critical for patient care. We … Read more
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center Presents: Spring 2018 Writer's Discussion Series Pablo F. Gómez, Assistant Professor, History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin at Madison Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based … Read more
The Institute for Arts and Humanities, The Departments of Social Medicine, Anthropology, English and Comparative Literature, and Carolina Performing Arts Present a Workshop-Dialogue: Imagination is not Imaginary: What does Art Do and Why Does it Matter in Medicine? A response by an artist and person with chronic illness to the recent announcement by the American Association of Medical … Read more
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra, Professor Emeritus, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan "Art and Medicine: Medical History in Diego Rivera's Art" All Bullitt Club lectures are free and open to the public.
Join HHIVE and Carolina Seminars for our final Health Humanities Grand Rounds event of the year: Health Humanities Grand Rounds with Ben Kaplan “I Know Me: Using Photovoice to Explore the Lives of Complex Care Patients" This talk will serve as an introduction to Ben’s ongoing research project, I Know Me: Using Photovoice to Explore the … Read more
Trent History of Medicine Lecture Series: Contraception Crossroads: Health Workers Encounter Family Planning in Mid-20th Century Latin America Between the 1930s and the 1970s, health workers of different types began to embrace, slowly and selectively, the value of smaller families for all people in the region as well as to become used to new types of contraceptive technologies. What … Read more
HETTLEMAN LECTURES: Presentations by two of UNC’s most distinguished young scholars – winners of the 2017 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. 1:00 p.m. Assisting Death in America: A Cultural Account of a New Medical Frontier Mara Buchbinder, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology 2:00 p.m. Survival of the Richest: How Wealth, Race … Read more
Pediatric Schwartz Center Rounds® A multidisciplinary forum where pediatric clinical caregivers discuss social & emotional issues that arise in caring for patients Hierarchy in Medicine: Effects on Patient Care Facilitator: Mary Beth Prieur, PhD Physician Leader: Afsaneh Pirzadeh, MD All hospital caregivers are welcome! For more information, please contact Peds_PCCM_Admin@med.unc.edu Pediatric Schwartz Rounds are sponsored by the Department … Read more
Pediatric Ethics Consultation: A Look Behind the Curtain Chris Feudtner, MD PhD MPH Steven D. Handler Endowed Chair of Medical Ethics Attending Physician & Research Director, PACT & ICS Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Please join us for a thoughtful examination of … Read more
Visiting Scholar Presentation, UNC Carolina Population Center: Dr. Kaumudi Joshipura Jinraj, NIH Endowed Chair and Director of the Center for Clinical Research and Health Promotion at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan.
