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Mind-Body Medicine and Black Women’s Clubs in the Era of Jim Crow

Bullitt History of Medicine Club lectures, presented via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Lecture 1 Title: Mind-Body Medicine and Black Women’s Clubs in the Era of Jim Crow Speaker: Carrie Streeter Ph.D. Candidate, U.S. History, University of California San Diego Time: Monday, October 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Eastern Time (US and Canada) Registration link: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zs8GsT6cTTSB-SKNVFMV8g Lecture information: When asked why Black … Read more

History of Chagas Disease: Science and Health in Brazil

Zoom

Please join the Bullitt History of Medicine Club for its November lecture:  Title: History of Chagas Disease: Science and Health in Brazil Speaker: Simone Kropf Professor of History of Sciences and Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation Registration link: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UuFB5v3ZSoepiFQVfMjSaQ Lecture information: This lecture will explore the history of Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), discovered by the physician Carlos Chagas in 1909 in a poor, rural area … Read more

Fisher to Give Lecture (via Zoom) at Penn Law on December 7

As part of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s 2021-2022 Lecture Series on Race and Regulation, Dr. Jill A. Fisher, Professor of Social Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, will present “How Race and Social Inequalities Influence Healthy People’s Paid Participation in FDA-Required Clinical Trials” on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from 5:00 p.m. to … Read more

CGER: Video/Audio Recording in the Operating Room and the Coming Age of Surgical Transparency

Alexander J. Langerman, M.D, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Langerman focuses on the intersection of ethics, data science, and management in the operating room, and he has faculty positions with Vanderbilt Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering. Dr. Langerman holds a masters degree in clinical … Read more

Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America

Please join us virtually for our first Health Humanities Grand Rounds of the semester on Thursday, January 20th, at 4:00pm. This month's seminar will feature UNC School of Medicine's own Mara Buchbinder, PhD, who will be presenting key findings from her new book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America, about how the legalization of … Read more

Diabetes and the American Century

Online

Bullitt History of Medicine Club’s Spring 2022 lecture, presented via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Lecture: Diabetes and the American Century Speaker: Dr. Richard McKinley Mizelle, Jr. Associate Professor of History, University of Houston Time: February 1, 2022 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Registration link: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2g_NqlhAT9SdByvbYEuwvg Lecture information: Diabetes has played a key role in multiple … Read more

On the Importance of History to Medicine, with Chinese Medicine as Exemplary Case

Online

Bullitt History of Medicine Club’s Spring 2022 lecture, presented via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Lecture: On the Importance of History to Medicine, with Chinese Medicine as Exemplary Case Speaker: Dr. Nicole Elizabeth Barnes Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, History, Duke University Time: April 5, 2022 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Registration link: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yAY7cqS9TQywb8I4D6sKfA Lecture … Read more

Merrimon Lecture Series: Elena Conis, Ph.D., September 9th, 12:00 pm Virtual Lecture

Virtual Event

Elena Conis, Ph.D., September 9th, 12:00 pm Virtual Lecture Elena Conis is a writer and historian of medicine, public health, and the environment. Prior to joining the Graduate School of Journalism, she was a professor of history and the Mellon Fellow in Health and Humanities at Emory University and an award-winning health columnist for the Los … Read more

Merrimon Lecture: Finding the ‘Greater Good’ in an Era of Polarization: What Vaccine Hesitancy Has Taught Us

4008 Old Clinic Auditorium

The Merrimon Lecture 2022 September 14 Wednesday, 12:00 pm 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/merrimon-lecture-2022/ Heidi J. Larson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and is the Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is also a Clinical Professor of Health Metrics … Read more

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds: Providing Optimal Care When Providers and Patients Do Not Share the Same Language

Bondurant Hall, G100

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds Elaine Hsieh, Ph.D., J.D. Chair and Professor, Communication Studies University of Minnesota October 12 https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/providing-0ptimal-care-when-providers-and-patients-do-not-share-the-same-language/ Elaine Hsieh (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004; J.D., University of Oklahoma, 2019) is Chair and Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Minnesota (starting 7/15/2022), and a Visiting Professor at the University of … Read more