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Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience:

A Workshop on the Intersection of Medical Advocacy and Medical Ethics Are there any professional ethical obligations for health care professionals to take responsibility for their colleagues' complicity, given the cultural and political differences that influence their work? What can and should health care professionals across the globe who are motivated to advocate on this … Read more

Pregnancy, the Pandemic and Morality of Reproduction

H E A L T H H UMA N I T I E S G R A N D R O U N D S Anne Lyerly, MD, MA The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a range of tensions at the interface of public policies and the private lives of individuals, including in the context of … Read more

The History of Anti-Vaccination

The History of Anti-Vaccination Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Elizabeth Salisbury MS2, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine The History of Anti-Vaccination Registration link:  https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1kMwiRCVRB-KOq58Hfs6PA Lecture information: This talk investigates the origins of the anti-vaccination movement, tracing its roots back to the smallpox vaccine. The anti-vaccination movement will be explored through three lenses: mandatory vaccinations and government … Read more

The Doctors and the Black Death: Reconsidering Expertise in an Age of Pandemic

Register here Lecture information: In the popular imagination, backwards and ignorant “medieval people” possessed no means of understanding or trying to combat the Black Death, the fourteenth-century outbreak of bubonic plague that ravaged Europe among other parts of the world. In fact, while medieval doctors lacked modern medical technologies and knowledge of disease pathology, they … Read more

Merrimon Lecture: Thrown Under the Bus: Young People’s Mental Health in the Pandemic Era

Vikram Patel is The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. He co-leads the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard initiative. His work has focused on the burden of mental disorders, their association with social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for their prevention and treatment. He holds Honorary Professorships … Read more

Bullitt History of Medicine Club Student Lightning Talks

Join the Bullitt History of Medicine Club to sample the work of three current UNC School of Medicine students as they present their research in lightning talks. The talks will be followed by a Q&A session. This session will be presented via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Time: April 13, 2021 12:00 PM in Eastern Time … Read more

Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America

Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America     by The Association for the Study of Death and Society Mon, 19 April 2021 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT Dr. Mara Buchbinder will present key findings from her new book about how the legalization of assisted dying is changing lives & deaths in the USA. … Read more

Academy of Educators Summer Book Club

Lecture and Q&A with author, race theorist, and philosopher Dr. George Yancy (Emory Univ.) Register: https://www.med.unc.edu/aoe/event/aoe-book-club-lecture-qa-with-dr-george-yancy/\