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Health Humanities Grand Rounds with Dr. Emily Winderman

HHIVE Lab (Gaskin Library/Greenlaw 524) Gaskin Library, Greenlaw Hall, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill

Dr. Emily Winderman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications at North Carolina State University. She studies the rhetoric of health and medicine and will present a work-in-progress that investigates rhetorics of clinical space, especially abortion clinics.

Psychiatric Degeneration Theory and Irish Modernism: Blending Sickness with Sin

Perkins 217

SPONSOR(S): Neurohumanities Research Group, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Health Humanities Lab (HHL) Responding to patterns of industrialization and institutionalization in the nineteenth century, degeneration theorists like Bénédict Morel, Cesare Lombroso, and Max Nordau became convinced that the … Read more