The Art of Falling: What Narratives Written by Older Adults Reveal about Human Balancing Acts Jane Thrailkill Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2003 Humanities in Medicine Lecture Lunch provided at NOON ▪ Talk … Read more
Medicine as Remembering: The Bodies We Touch, The Stories We Tell Brian Volck, MD Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2003 Humanities in Medicine Lecture Brian Volck, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the … Read more
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
Since the early 1980s, two great cycles of change have unfolded in health care-each one set off by rising costs and punctuated by national political conflict. The next phase is taking shape now. Paul Starr, PhD is professor of sociology … Read more
The Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine Boyarsky Series on Race & Health presents "Race and Reproduction: Eugenic Sterilization Revisited" by Johanna Schoen (Rutgers University) This talk will analyze the history of North Carolina's eugenic sterilization program … Read more
Boyarsky Series on Bioethics & Social Justice Respecting Autonomy and Enabling Diversity: The Critical Need for Demographic Variation in Research Datasets Wed, November 10, 12:00-1:00pm Register here for the Zoom webinar. Promising advances in precision health and other kinds of … Read more
Date: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 from 5:30-7pm Location: Great Hall, Trent Semans Center at Duke Register to attend: https://t.e2ma.net/click/jdyvvi/z5e8rgf/bzlesp We live in an age in which we cede more and more of life to machines, raising questions for the practice … Read more
