History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series
The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and The University of Virginia School of Medicine Continuing Medical Education Program sponsor the annual History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series as an educational service for the University of Virginia Health System and interested citizens in the community. The Library hopes that the speakers and topics selected will promote a greater understanding of the historical and philosophical underpinnings of today’s health care disciplines.
The generous support of friends, faculty, and alumni of the University of Virginia Health System provides funding for the Lecture Series.
2007/2008 History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series
This season the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series has joined forces with the Medical Center Hour . Our new lectures will take place on Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:30 at the Jordan Conference Center Auditorium.
Lecture Series Schedule [1.9MB PDF]
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BEING THERE: MEDICAL STUDENT SERVICE AFTER 9/11
12 September 2007, Wednesday, 12:30-1:30 pm Barry Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., Biochemistry and Medical Humanities, University of Rochester, Rochester NY
Podcast of Barry Goldstein's, "BEING THERE: MEDICAL STUDENT SERVICE AFTER 9/11"
For months following September 11, 2001, 20 NYU medical students volunteered in the office of the city's chief medical examiner to sort, catalog, and identify human remains. Interested in these students' experiences, scientist-artist Barry Goldstein photographed and interviewed them. His exhibit, Being There, explores the complex impulses that prompted students to volunteer and the challenges and consequences of their service.Reception following the program in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Dr. Goldstein's photographic exhibit will be on view in the Library from September 10-14.
DISPLAYING DEAD AND DIFFERENT BODIES: SPECTACLE/SIDESHOW/EDUCATION?
19 September 2007, Wednesday, 12:30-1:30 pm Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D., Psychiatry, Medical Ethics, Sociology and Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA; Melanie McCollum, Ph.D., Anatomy and Cell Biology, UVA
Podcast of Paul Root Wolpe's "DISPLAYING DEAD AND DIFFERENT BODIES: SPECTACLE/SIDESHOW/EDUCATION?"
It's rare today in the developed world to encounter a cadaver, see human viscera, or confront bodies that bear significant disfigurement. Society has segregated these specimens of bodily presentation, allowing only medical, police and military personnel to transgress these secret places of human embodiment. Now, touring exhibits of plastinated, dissected human cadavers are drawing crowds. What's our fascination when we behold the body so exhibited? Who should have access to dead or irregular bodies? What are the ethics of human display?
ROOT SHOCK: THE IMPACT OF URBAN RENEWAL ON HEALTH
3 October 2007, Wednesday, 12:30-1:30 pm Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D., Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York NY; M. Norman Oliver, M.D., M.A., Family Medicine and Center on Health Disparities, UVA; Maurice D. Cox, B.Arch., Architecture, UVA, and Charlottesville City Council
Podcast of Mindy Thompson Fullilove's, "ROOT SHOCK: THE IMPACT OF URBAN RENEWAL ON HEALTH"
Urban renewal projects in the 1950s-1970s bulldozed entire districts and traumatically displaced hundreds of African American communities. The residents of these areas experienced "root shock" from the destruction of their physical and emotional ecosystems. With this perspective on urban renewal, including projects like Charlottesville's Vinegar Hill, what can we learn about the health status of urban African Americans and the health of our cities and neighborhoods?
WHAT IS "DEAD" ANYWAY? DETERMINING DEATH FOR PURPOSES OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
14 November 2007, Wednesday, 12:30-1:30 pm Susan Lederer, Ph.D., History of Medicine and Science, Yale University, New Haven CT; Timothy L. Pruett, M.D., Surgery and Internal Medicine, UVA, and President, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
WHAT IS "DEAD" ANYWAY? DETERMINING DEATH FOR PURPOSES OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
When organ and tissue transplantation is a possibility, how do physicians determine that a prospective donor has died so that organs may be procured? Understanding the history as well as the science of determining death can help clinicians, families, and even prospective donors manage this challenging emotional and psychological aspect of transplantation medicine.
Beyond Safety and Efficacy: Should the FDA Consider Ethics in Drug Approvals?
6 February 2008, Wednesday, 12:30-1:30 pm Fran Hawthorne, independent writer on business and social policy, Brooklyn NY Richard Merrill LL.B., School of Law, UVA
Beyond Safety and Efficacy: Should the FDA Consider Ethics in Drug Approvals?
By law and tradition, the federal Food and Drug Administration is supposed to consider only two factors when it analyzes new drugs for approval: Is the drug safe, and does it work? But as medical therapeutics delve deeper into controversial areas such as use of human embryonic stem cells, cloning, and birth control that resembles abortion, the FDA is increasingly pressured to take into account the ethics of the drugs that come before it. Few people would deny that many drugs raise important issues of social and biological ethics. The question is, is the FDA the right place to discuss them?
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series and the Sadie Lewis Webb Program in Biomedicine and the Law of the School of Law
Thinking about Healing—One Scholar's Journey
12 March 2008, Wednesday, 12:30-1:30 pm Brian Stock PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Thinking about Healing—One Scholar's Journey
This Medical Center Hour is a conversation with distinguished historian and literary scholar of the Middle Ages Brian Stock. This expert on (among other subjects) the history of reading and its connections with meditation and self-knowledge actually began his studies as a student of medicine. How has his work evolved across his career, and what connections does he see now between his scholarship and a continuing interest in science, therapeutics, and the dynamics of healing? Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series and New Literary History
The Crispell Lecture in the History of the Health Sciences:
When the Famous Get Sick and the Sick Get Famous: How Celebrity Patients Influence Medicine
2 April 2008, Wednesday, 12:30-1:30 pm
Barron Lerner MD PhD, Columbia University, New York NY
Lou Gehrig, Steve McQueen, Margaret Bourke-White, Rita Hayworth, Barney Clark, Lorenzo Odone (of "Lorenzo's Oil")—these persons' fame rests as much (or more) on illness as on their life-accomplishments. Beginning with Gehrig, celebrity patients have increasingly divulged their diagnoses, and the media and public have increasingly claimed a right to know. Further, in a society where medical advances are headline news, we make stars out of patients on the leading edge of medical therapeutics. But while celebrity illnesses give us opportunities to learn about diseases and treatments, at the same time they can be sources of misleading information.
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