Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds: “Rationing: Setting Limits in Health Care”
Philip Rosoff, MD, Director Clinical Ethics Program, Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine, Duke University: “Rationing: Setting Limits in Health Care”
Philip Rosoff, MD, Director Clinical Ethics Program, Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine, Duke University: “Rationing: Setting Limits in Health Care”
Please join us for a two-day conference, Caring for Practitioners and Patients: Challenges for Emerging Models of Health Care, on April 7-8, 2016. Recent shifts in health care financing, governance, and information management have profoundly shaped the ways health practitioners and patients interact with one another, often leaving both deeply unsatisfied. This conference examines diverse … Read more
A Singular Intimacy: Connecting the Bridge Between Caregiver and Patient,Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, D.Litt (Hon), FACP Associate Professor of Medicine New York University School of Medicine Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review Thursday, April 7, 2016 | 5:45pm Great Hall, Trent Semans Center for Health Education, Duke University Free and open to the public | Reception to … Read more
Please join the Franklin Humanities Institute for a pair of talks on epidemics, bodies, sexuality, and health with two visitors from the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg. 12:00-1:00 pm Catherine Burns | HIV and Medical Humanities: The Waiting Room 1:15 - 2:15 pm Sarah Emily Duff | Making … Read more
Please join the Franklin Humanities Institute for a pair of talks on epidemics, bodies, sexuality, and health with two visitors from the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg. 12:00-1:00 pm Catherine Burns | HIV and Medical Humanities: The Waiting Room 1:15 - 2:15 pm Sarah Emily Duff | Making … Read more
Please join us for the next in the series of Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lectures.Snatching Bodies, Making Doctors: Stealing black corpses for medical education in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American South Scott Nelson, 2015 McLendon-Thomas Award Winner
Please join us for the next in the series of Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lectures.Snatching Bodies, Making Doctors: Stealing black corpses for medical education in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American South Scott Nelson, 2015 McLendon-Thomas Award Winner
This presentation is based on an ethnographic study of NCGENES that examines “the social life” of an exome sequencing (ES) result. Through observations and interviews, we have traced how ES findings become “meaningful results” as they are produced through the bioinformatics pipeline, interpreted by the molecular sign-out committee, communicated by clinicians and understood by patient/participants. … Read more
2016 Douglass Hunt Lecture presents Difference Without Domination: Reconciling Free Speech and Social Equality On College CampusesKeynote Speaker: Danielle Allen, PhD, Professor, Government, Harvard; Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics-Harvard Is it possible to reconcile what currently are experienced as competing commitments to free expression and an egalitarian campus culture? In her lecture, Dr. … Read more
9:00-10:45: Panel I: Gendered Health and Reproductive RightsChair: Kia Caldwell, UNC-Chapel Hill Stacey Langwick, Cornell University: "The Properties of Plants: Epistemology, Ontology, and Rights" Caroline Bledsoe, Northwestern University: "Puzzling Changes in Sub-Saharan Fertility in the Last 25 Years: How to Understand Them as well as the Analyses of Them" Robert Wyrod, University of Colorado-Boulder: "When … Read more