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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

Hutchins Conversation: Lisa McKeithan on Liberal Arts & Rural Health

Graham Memorial Hall, Room 039

Lisa McKeithan, MS, CRC, is Director and HIV/AIDS Researcher at CommWell Health Clinics in Dunn, North Carolina, an award-winning not-for-profit Federally Qualified Health Center. McKeithan is Director of CommWell Health’s NC-REACH program, which serves patients who are both HIV-positive and homeless. The National Rural … Read more

Bullitt Club Lecture: Not “Simply the Old-Fashioned Grip”: The Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Health Sciences Library, Room 527 UNC School of Medicine, 335 S Columbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Not "Simply the Old-Fashioned Grip": The Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Dawne Lucas, Special Collections Librarian, Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill   One hundred years ago, influenza killed at least 50 million people worldwide. Unlike most influenza viruses, this "swine flu" … Read more