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Understanding Eating Disorders Through Narrative

In this Narrative Medicine Mondays, we'll read about and reflect on how narrative - of the self or as depicted in literature - can affect one's relationship with food. Led by HHL manager and Duke alum Kat Berko, Duke undergrad … Read more

Reframing Addiction: Poetic Narratives of Recovery (Duke HHL)

Rubenstein Library, Room 249 441 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC, United States

The Duke Health Humanities Laboratory presents Reframing Addition: Poetic Narratives of Recover with Kate Daniels (Vanderbilt University).

Metagnosis: Retrospective Revelations from Blade Runner to ADHD and Beyond with Danielle Spencer (Duke HHL)

Alumni Memorial Commons Room (152 Lanford Building, Divinity School) 407 Chapel Dr, Durham, NC, United States

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

Dementia and Caring: Arts Performance and Panel Discussion (Duke HHL)

Richard White Lecture Hall, Auditorium 1308 Campus Dr, Durham, NC, United States

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

Duke HHL: Health Humanities Medical Student Panel

Zoom

The Duke University Health Humanities Lab and Duke Disability Alliance presents... Health Humanities Medical Student Panel Wednesday, January 27, 6:30pm EST https://duke.zoom.us/j/93717241378 Wondering how to navigate a pre-med path with a non-STEM major? Come hear from a panel of Duke … Read more

Duke HHL: Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

Zoom

Liat Ben-Moshe "Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition" The Health Humanities Lab is happy to announce this upcoming event: a talk by Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe on her new book, Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition, followed by discussion with participants. Liat Ben-Moshe … Read more