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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

Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lectures: “Once You Pop, You Can’t Stop (Bleeding): Aortic Aneurysms and their Management from the 18th to the 21st Century”

Justin Barr, MD, PhD, General Surgery Residency Program, Duke University Medical Center Aortic aneurysms – or balloon-like dilations of the largest blood vessel in the body – represent an acute threat to the life of a patient, a threat that physicians have recognized and struggled to treat for centuries. With aneurysms an identifiable pathology whose … Read more

Social Medicine Forum-Neil Prose, Duke U. Dermatology & Pediatrics

Drawing on specific examples from his course Visual Cultures of Medicine, Olson will invite discussion on the ways in which media studies — with its capacious focus that spans from popular media to technical mediality — might serve the social/historical study of medicine. Discussion will range from key pedagogical issues to the pragmatics of integrating … Read more

HHEX: Inaugural UNC Health and Humanities Exchange

This interdisciplinary symposium presents a broad look at narrative medicine with opening and closing keynote lectures, break-outs and workshops,and a theatre plenary session. Led by faculty, staff, and students at Wake Forest University, Forsyth Hospital, and UNC Chapel Hill, sessions will fall under three categories: narrative in clinical practice, curriculum and teaching, and honing practices … Read more

UNC School of Medicine Anatomy Day

Anatomy Day is an opportunity to compare what you’ve seen in the gross anatomy lab with historical representations of human anatomy over the centuries,drawn from rare materials in the Health Sciences Library Special Collections. It's one of the ways HSL Special Collections supports graduate education at UNC.

UNC Research Ethics Grand Rounds

Farr Curlin, MD, Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities, Humanities and History of Medicine, Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine and Culture Initiative, Duke Divinity School. Clinicians’ religious characteristics may strongly shape practice, particularly with respect to morally controversial interventions. Religion-associated differences may then expose the limits of what we know as “medical ethics” and … Read more

“Securing Safety and Reducing Harm: The Politics of Risk, Violence, and Injury in LGBT Political History”

Dr. Christina Hanhardt (University of Maryland, College Park)“Securing Safety and Reducing Harm: The Politics of Risk, Violence, and Injury in LGBT Political History” Talk Description: In the 1990s, the AIDS activist organization ACT UP created a needle exchange program in New York in the name of what they described as a “throwaway class” of drug … Read more