Health Humanities Grand Rounds "I Am Not My Disease": Visual Storytelling in South Africa and Eswantini About the talk:Â The medium of visual storytelling has always been a powerful catalyst for change. In this talk, Paul Blom will discuss his … Read more
Deadline extended to October 4th! 2020 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN March 26-28, 2020 Conference Theme: The Politics of Health Conference Chair: Jonathan M. Metzl Conference Co-Chair: Manisha Mishra For more information, please visit: (https://www.vanderbilt.edu//mhs/2019/06/2020hhc/) The sixth annual Health … Read more
The Americanist Speaker Series presents: Yolanda Wilson (Howard University). Dr. Wilson will give a talk titled âIn Praise of Difficult Patients,â which is based in her chapter on caregiving from her current book project, Black Death: Racial Justice, Priority-Setting, and Care at the End of Life. The … Read more
Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Shelley McKellar, PhD Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and Its Sensational Patient Cases from Haskell Karp … Read more
What is the connection between Aristotle and Blade Runner? What do belated diagnoses of ADHD have to do with unexpected genetic test results? Danielle Spencer proposes the term metagnosis to describe the experience of learning of a longstanding undetected condition. In contrast to diagnosis, metagnosis … Read more
An Arts Performance on Dementia, âVamping,â by Kali Quinn, followed by panel presentations and discussion with U. of Toronto  Medical Anthropologist Janelle Taylor, Jessica Ruhle (Director of Education and Public Programs at the Nasher, including âReflections: The Nasher Museumâs Alzheimerâs Program), Lisa Gwyther … Read more