Joint Lecture Series Presented by: Center for Bioethics & Parr Center for Ethics Tom Murray, PhD, President Emeritus,the Hastings Center, will reflect on how well the arguments made in his 1996 book, The Worth of a Child, about parental choices in the face of medical predictions about their offspring hold up today in the context … Read more
This is the biennial conference of the Clinical Ethics Network of North Carolina (CENNC) Objectives: By the end of this conference the learner will be able to . . . • Describe the health care needs of underserved populations in North Carolina. • Explain ethical issues that arise in caring for underserved populations in North … Read more
Lisa Harris, MD, PhD Dr. Harris’ research examines issues at the intersection of clinical obstetrical and gynecological care and law, policy, politics, ethics, history, and sociology. She conducts interdisciplinary, mixed methods research on many issues along the reproductive justice continuum, including abortion, miscarriage, contraception, in vitro fertilization (IVF), infertility and birth, and racial, ethnic, and … Read more
Please join HHIVE and Carolina Seminars for our first Health Humanities Grand Rounds event of the semester. Health Humanities Grand Rounds with Paul Blom: "I am Not My Disease": Visual Storytelling in South Africa and Eswatini Paul Blom is a third-year PhD student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. His research focuses on … Read more
Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and Its Sensational Patient Cases from Haskell Karp to Dick Cheney Shelley McKellar, PhD, Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Today artificial hearts are a clinical reality after decades of contentious development. Former U.S. Vice President Dick … Read more
Drop by to compare what you’ve seen in the gross anatomy lab with historical representations of human anatomy over the centuries. Materials are drawn from holdings at the Wilson Special Collections Library. You don’t want to miss this fun and educational open house event. About the Bullitt History of Medicine Club The Bullitt History of … Read more
Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds John C. Moskop, Ph.D. Wallace and Mona Wu Chair in Biomedical Ethics, Professor of Internal Medicine, and Chair of the WFBMC Clinical Ethics Committee This presentation will situate conflicts about end-of-life care within the broader context of the evolution of end-of-life care over the fifty-year history of American bioethics. The presentation … Read more
Bullitt History of Medicine Club lecture: Speaker: Xiaoping Fang, Assistant Professor of History, Nanyang Technological University, and Fellow, National Humanities Center This talk analyzes the dynamics between disease and social restructuring during the global cholera pandemic in Mao’s China between the three most radical political events of the 1960s: the Great Leap Forward, the Great … Read more
Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds Dr. Arthur Matas Professor of Surgery University of Minnesota As the former Director of Renal Transplant Services at his institution and a former President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Dr. Matas continues to be a leader in the field of transplant surgery. He has published extensively on clinical and … Read more
This conference is organized by the WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Health Histories in collaboration with the University of York, Duke Global Health Institute, and the Duke Decolonizing Global Health Working Group. https://sites.duke.edu/dukedgh/ Global health as we know it today – in our research, our practice, and our programming – is the newest configuration of what … Read more
