Events

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds :U.S. Dr. Rosoff will present a proposal for comprehensive healthcare reform that embraces rationing, and provide an approach for rationing that is just and fair. Philip Rosoff, MD, Director, Clinical Ethics Program, Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine, Duke University.

Please join us for a two-day conference, Caring for Practitioners and Patients: Challenges for Emerging Models of Health Care, on April 7-8, 2016. Recent shifts in health care financing, governance, and information management have profoundly shaped the ways health practitioners and patients interact with one another, often leaving both deeply unsatisfied. This conference examines diverse … Read more

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

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