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
Caroline Bledsoe (Northwestern) and Stacey Langwick (Cornell) are due in town for a workshop (http://africa.unc.edu/events/legislating_gender_in_africa/) and will meet with us for a lunch discussion on the theme of global health, now scheduled for 1-2 pm in the Incubator Room, Hyde Hall.
Brown Bag Lunch Seminar: Like North Carolina, Canada has been discussing the the legalization of physician "aid-in-dying." Grab your lunch and come join us and McGill University's Daniel Weinstock for an update of that debate in Canada, and a discussion of how it compares with North Carolina's deliberations over House Bill 611, the "Death with … Read more
This talk examines the interarticulation of race and disability in the transnational 19th century, particularly around the notion of "slowness." It concentrates on the work of John Langdon Down, known for defining modern-day Down Syndrome as "mongoloid idiocy." The framing questions of the talk that relate toxicity and intoxication are part of Chen's larger current … Read more
Should we take the moral concerns of biobank donors seriously?Raymond De Vries, Professor and Co-Director Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine University of Michigan
