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
An Arts Performance on Dementia, “Vamping,” by Kali Quinn, followed by panel presentations and discussion with U. of Toronto Medical Anthropologist Janelle Taylor, Jessica Ruhle (Director of Education and Public Programs at the Nasher, including “Reflections: The Nasher Museum’s Alzheimer’s Program), Lisa Gwyther … Read more
Biweekly HHIVE Lab meeting to discuss ongoing projects, future collaborations, and development.
We are surrounded by people and places. Beyond communicating with people and navigating through places, we cannot help but evaluate them. In this talk, I will review basic conceptual underpinnings of neuroaesthetics, a relatively new field that examines the biological … Read more
