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Duke: The Gender of Care: Alzheimer’s Disease in the 1980s

Zoom Webinar

In the 1980s, Americans grappled like never before with dementia, and specifically with Alzheimer’s Disease. This talk will return to this era with a historian’s eyes, asking specifically why families, and women in families, were viewed as the indispensable deliverers … Read more

Medical Humanities and Asian American Studies

Penn Garden, Duke University 107 Union Dr., Durham, NC, United States

Hosted by the Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program at Duke University, the one-day symposium explores connections and intersections between Medical Humanities and Asian American Studies. The keynote speaker is Dr. James Kyung-Jin Lee, the author of Pedagogies of Woundedness: … Read more

2024 McGovern Lecture: A Medicine More Fit for Humanity

The Great Hall at Trent Semans Center for Health Education

Date: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 from 5:30-7pm Location: Great Hall, Trent Semans Center at Duke Register to attend: https://t.e2ma.net/click/jdyvvi/z5e8rgf/bzlesp We live in an age in which we cede more and more of life to machines, raising questions for the practice … Read more