24 January 2007
Race-Based Therapeutics
M. Gregg Bloche, J.D., M.D.
Georgetown University School of Law
M. Norman Oliver, M.D.
Family Medicine and Center on Health Disparities, UVA
A new generation of pharmaceuticals seeks to take account of biologic variations that distinguish subpopulations crudely denoted as racial groups. For example, in 2005, the FDA approved BiDil to treat heart failure in black patients. While identifying genetic variations and developing targeted therapies are laudable research goals, it is crucial to consider the risks-social as well as medical-of using racial categories when thinking about disease and creating and marketing drugs.
Co-presented with the Department of Public Health Sciences,
the Institute for Practical Ethics, and the Center on Health Disparities, UVA
31 January 2007
Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture of the School of Medicine
Remembering Chris Jebson: What the Patient Taught Her Doctor
Laurel W. Rice, M.D., Obstetrics and Gynecology, UVA
W. Robert Jebson, husband of patient, Culpeper VA
Patients can be some of their doctors' greatest teachers. What might attentive physicians learn from their patients about the impact of illness, the meaning of health, living a full life, and facing death-and also about themselves and about doctoring? A physician and a husband reflect on one patient and the lessons that are part of her legacy.
* Special Medical Center Hour *
Friday, 2 February 2007
4:00 pm, Old Cabell Hall Auditorium
A Poetry Reading by Donald Hall
Donald Hall, Poet Laureate of the United States, Wilmot NH
Co-presented with the Office of the President, the Virginia Quarterly Review,
the Hedgehog Review, and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities
7 February 2007
Doesn't a Bird Fly By? Credibility and Surprise in Writing and Art
Ann Beattie, M.A., English and Creative Writing, UVA
Lincoln Perry, M.F.A., Distinguished Visiting Artist, UVA
What's the creative process all about? Two artists who for part of each year call Charlottesville home-one a distinguished fiction writer, the other a celebrated painter-offer their views on the making of their art and on the artistic life, including their life together as husband and wife.
Co-presented with the Creative Writing Program, Department of English, UVA
14 February 2007
Reframing Disability: New Ways of Seeing and Representing Disability
Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, Ph.D., Women's Studies, Emory University, Atlanta GA
Walt S. Davis, M.D., Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Biomedical Ethics, UVA
How we view, define, and represent persons with disabilities says a lot about our social and cultural values, including our ideas of what's "normal." How might new portraits of disability help to reframe our understanding of ourselves, our institutions, and our views of, among other things, what constitutes health?
Co-presented with the Department of English
and the Bioethics Program of the College of Arts & Sciences
21 February 2007
The Gibson Lecture of the Cancer Center
Will You Vaccinate Your Daughter Against Cervical Cancer?
Michael F. Rein, M.D., Internal Medicine, UVA
Mark H. Stoler, M.D., Pathology, UVA
Diane Cole, Cancer Center, UVA
The new vaccine against cancer-causing strains of human papilloma virus promises to virtually eradicate cervical cancer. Yet Gardasil's use is not without social controversy. Who should be vaccinated? At what age? At what risks? Who decides? Should vaccination be mandatory? Who pays?
Co-presented with the Cancer Center
28 February 2007
Big Doctoring: Primary Care in America-Essential and Endangered
Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., Medicine and Health Policy, George Washington University, Washington DC
"Big doctoring"--coordinated, comprehensive care over time-seems to be disappearing from health care in the U.S. Given that many primary care physicians bring to their work a strong service ethic and a passion for social justice, if primary care as a specialty and a systematized type of practice is endangered, what else might be at risk?.
7 March 2007
MEDICAL CENTER HOUR TAKES A SPRING BREAK
* Special Medical Center Hour *
Monday, 12 March 2007
6:00 pm-McLeod Auditorium
Treating HIV/AIDS and TB in Developing Countries
Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, and Partners in Health, Boston MA and Haiti
How does activist physician and medical anthropologist Paul Farmer understand the politics of hunger and health, at home and abroad? What does he propose we do?
Co-presented with the Center for Global Health
14 March 2007
Docs in the Box: Medicine through Media Lenses
Les Friedman, Ph.D., Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY
From "Dr. Kildare" and "Marcus Welby" in the 1960s to "ER," "Scrubs" and "House" now, American television feeds the public's fascination with medicine and with those who practice it. But what else might be going on when we tune in? Media portrayals of doctors at work surely reflect our society's attitudes toward health and health care, but might they also be shaping our expectations of who the doctor is and what he or she is able to do?
21 March 2007
Virginia Festival of the Book
Stiff: The Secret Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach, author, Oakland CA
Dead bodies are at work all around us-as anatomy and forensic pathology texts, surgical technique practice sites, crash-test or airline accident "victims." This conversation with independent author Mary Roach explores her experiences in researching and writing about the busy, and beneficial, (after)lives of human cadavers.
Co-presented with the Virginia Festival of the Book
* Special Medical Center Hour *
Thursday, 22 March 2007
2 pm-University of Virginia Bookstore
Virginia Festival of the Book
Final Exam: A Transplant Surgeon Writes about Mortality
Pauline Chen, M.D., Boston MA
An eloquent physician-writer reads from her new book about her personal and professional rites of passage in dealing with death and coming to recognize the need for greater empathy in medical practice and the doctor's education.
Co-presented with the Virginia Quarterly Review
and the Virginia Festival of the Book
28 March 2007
The Koppaka Family Foundation Lecture
Empathy for Health Care Professionals
Richard M. Frankel, Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine
4 April 2007
Corporate Ethics and Biotechnology
Kem Hawkins, President, Cook Group Inc., Bloomington IN
Especially since Enron, corporate ethics have been in the headlines and debated both within the business community and in the public square. How does the head of a large company view his corporation's-and his own- ethical obligations? Are there special ethical considerations when the company is a major developer and purveyor of biotechnology, when its products and profits are closely bound to human health?
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