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Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series Spirituality in Healthcare: Just Because It May Be “Made Up” Does Not Mean That It Is Not Real

Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine: Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series.John Swinton, PhD, Chair, Divinity and Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen Professor Swinton will explore the extraordinarily diverse concept of "spirituality," specifically as it relates to healthcare practices. He will suggest that there is no such thing as spirituality. Rather it is … Read more

Health Humanities Lab: Anthropology in Global Health Trials Lecture

Anita Hardon, Professor of Anthropology of Health and Social Care University of Amsterdam. Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard to evaluate and generalize the efficacy of global health interventions across diverse socio-cultural contexts. Social scientists have criticized these trials for ignoring the social and infrastructural conditions that impinge on how technologies work, and for … Read more

Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series Diabetes and Big Data: Why Medical History Matters for Machine Learning

Beginning in the 1950s, medical researchers sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health began a decades-long project to understand why members of the Gila River Indian Community Reservation, located outside of Phoenix, suffered from disproportionately high rates of diabetes. In this talk, Professor Radin will consider the hidden medical and colonial history of the … Read more

Research Ethics Grand Rounds

David Pepper, MD, Hartford Hospital, Psychosomatic Medicine, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Outpatient Family Medicine, Contra Costa Health Services. "The View from Here: Ethical Concerns for Providers in Their Emergency Care of Behavioral Health Patients Awaiting Placement".Lunch will be provided for first 50 people All are welcome

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds “The View from Here: Ethical Concerns for Providers in Their Emergency Care of Behavioral Health Patients Awaiting Placement “

Video and audio recording of moments in our lives has become commonplace with thewidespread use of smartphones and other recording devices. Health care settings are no exception. Recording in this sensitive domain has raised ethical issues of transparency, trust, consent, respectful treatment, welfare, confidentiality, and privacy. Theses issues, in the context of motivations, processes, and … Read more

Sulzberger Distinguished Lecture; The Neurobiology of Poverty

Seth Pollak, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Neurobiology of Poverty: New insights linking child poverty to gaps in achievement and health. Child development expert Seth Pollak will introduce a growing body of evidence indicating that the effects of poverty on brain development are central to gaps in academic achievement and physical and … Read more

The transformative potential of social medicine”

Michelle Morse, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Partners in Health will give a public talk entitled "The transformative potential of social medicine”. She will discuss the work of Partners in Health and the challenges of providing health care in the developing world. All interested are invited.

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds: “Intersections of Religious Faith and Clinical Ethics”

Beth Epstein, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing, Chair, Acute & Specialty Care Department, University of Virginia School of Nursing.Moral distress has negative implications for healthcare providers and organizations in terms of burnout, intent to leave, and poorer perceived work environments. Further, the presence of moral distress among healthcare providers is an indicator that something … Read more