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Social Medicine Forum
Bondurant Hall G074Talk: 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, G100https://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 Auditoriumhttps://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/wp-content/uploads/sites/462/2018/10/Oct-26-State-of-Transgender-Health-Poteat.pdf
NEURODIVERSITIES SYMPOSIUM
Franklin Humanities Institute, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse, Duke UniversityThe term “neurodiversity,” first popularized by the autism community, challenges the pathologization of neurological deviation from socially constructed notions of “neurotypicality.” Another branch of “neurodiversity” discourse challenges the abstraction of the ideas of “mind” and “mental” states, using tools of empirical neuroscience to dismantle binary divides between “brainhood” and “embodiment.” Psychiatry now grapples with the implicit Western cultural … Read more
Center for Health Equity Research K Proposal Workshop – Part One
3005 Michael Hooker Research Centerhttps://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/wp-content/uploads/sites/462/2018/10/Oct-30-K-Workshop.pdf Join this two-part workshop focused on preparing and submitting proposals for K awards through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The workshop is designed so that participants have time to work on appropriate parts of their own proposals during the sessions. You will have the opportunity to receive feedback from your peers and from the workshop leader. Much of what will … Read more
Bad Blood: Revisiting the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
UNC Health Sciences Library Room 527Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture: James H. Jones, Distinguished Alumni Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Arkansas
Arabic Medicine Conquers Latin Europe, 1050-1300: Methods and Motives, a symposium.
Rubenstein Library Duke UniversityThursday, November 1: Rubenstein Library, RM 153 5PM: Exhibit tour With curators Sean Swanick and Rachel Ingold 5:30PM: Keynote lecture Cristina Alvarez Millán of the UNED (Madrid), "Arabic Medicine in the World of Classical Islam: Growth & Achievement" Reception to follow Friday, November 2: Rubenstein Library, RM 249 10AM-2PM Symposium featuring: Eliza Glaze … Read more