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 “In Praise of Difficult Patients,” 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

Biweekly HHIVE Lab meeting to discuss ongoing projects, future collaborations, and development.

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