Speaker – Raul Necochea, Ph.D. Title – Cancer Care Global Histories and the Education of Health Workers Overview – I am currently working on a project on the history of cervical cancer in Latin America. In a nutshell, throughout the 20th century, cervical cancer was … Read more
Speaker – Travis Alexander, Ph.D. candidate English and Comparative Literature Title – “All the new information in my blood": Immunity, Melancholy, Virality Overview – This talk expands on the psychoanalytic work of Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok to posit that the arrival of … Read more
Health Humanities Grand Rounds "I Am Not My Disease": Visual Storytelling in South Africa and Eswantini About the talk: The medium of visual storytelling has always been a powerful catalyst for change. In this talk, Paul Blom will discuss his … Read more
Please join HHIVE and Carolina Seminars for our November Health Humanities Grand Rounds event. Health Humanities Grand Rounds with Marion Quirici, Ph.D. Disability Studies: Rewriting Democracy Tuesday, November 5 3:30 – 4:30 pm HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) Light refreshments … Read more
Dr. Danielle Ofri, "Surviving Medicine in the 21st Century" November 19 at 4:00pm Kirkland Auditorum Koury Oral Health Science Building About the Talk: Disillusionment in medicine feels like it is reaching epidemic proportions. Doctors say they would never choose the … Read more
Dr. Danielle Ofri, "Grand Rounds: Medical Error" November 20 at 7:00am Bondurant G100 About the Talk: Patient safety is a critical issue in medicine today. There is, rightly, a strong emphasis on systems approaches to improving medical care and decreasing … Read more
If you were to visit the doctor, would you be considered a difficult patient? How do you know? What makes a patient “difficult”? In her presentation Yolonda Wilson will discuss the meaning of that label and how that label shapes … Read more
