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MEDICAL CENTER HOUR'S SPRING SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED

The University of Virginia School of Medicine's Medical Center Hour will begin its Spring 2002 weekly series on Wednesdays from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., in the Jordan Conference Center Auditorium.

Founded in 1971 by former dean of the U.Va. School of Medicine, Dr. Thomas H. Hunter, the Medical Center Hour explores current issues and controversies for medicine and society, including topics in contemporary health care, culture, ethics, religion, law, scientific research and public policy. The weekly forums, which are free and open to the public, are produced by the U.Va. Program of Humanities in Medicine.

  • January 16 Children Who Claim to Remember Past Lives. Dr. Ian Stevenson, director of the Division of Personality Studies at U.Va. Health System, and Dr. Jim Tucker, assistant professor of research in the Division of Personality Studies at U.Va. Health System, will be presenting.

  • January 23 Science and Society-Global Health: The Poet and the Doctor-Understanding Leprosy in The House is Black. Farnarz Milani of the Sloane Society at U.Va. School of Medicine, will be presenting.

  • January 30 Visceral Harmonies-Music as Panacea. Katherine Winterstein, M.Mus., lecturer in the McIntire Department of Music at U.Va., and Paige Riggs, Ph.D., lecturer in the McIntire Department of Music at U.Va., will be presenting.

  • February 6 Elevation, Inspiration and Positive Emotions in Medical Settings. Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at U.Va., will be presenting.

  • February 13 Science and Society: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine. Dr. Sally Satel, author, staff psychiatrist at Oasis Drug Treatment Clinic in Washington, D.C. and lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, will be presenting.

  • February 20 Spirituality and Medicine: The Varieties of Religious Healing-Rituals in Our Midst. Susan Sered, Ph.D., author and associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Bar-Ilan University, and Edith Turner, M.A., lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at U.Va., will be presenting. This lecture will be co-sponsored with the Department for Religious Studies and the Jewish Studies Programs at U.Va.

  • February 27 Global Health, Ethics and Society: Bioterrorism and Bioethics. Jonathan Moreno, Ph.D., director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at U.Va. Health System, will be presenting. This lecture will be co-sponsored with the Center for Biomedical and the Institute for Practical Ethics.

  • March 6 Science and Society: A Generation of Crack Babies-Policy Approaches to Perinatal Substance Abuse. Mary Faith Marshall, Ph.D., R.N., professor of medicine and bioethics at the University of Kansas, will be presenting. This lecture is co-sponsored with the Center for Biomedical Ethics.

  • March 13 Advance Care Planning Isn't About Getting it Right. David Barnard, Ph.D., director of Palliative Care Education and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, will be presenting.

  • March 20 AOA Lecture, School of Medicine: Surviving the Fall-The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. Dr. Peter A. Selwyn, author and associate professor of medicine, epidemiology and public health at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale School of Medicine, and Dr. John Schorling, section head of the Division of General Medicine at U.Va. Health System, will be presenting. This event is co-sponsored with Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society of U.Va.

  • March 21 A Reading from Surviving the Fall - The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor by Dr. Peter A. Selwyn for the Virginia Festival of the Book.

  • March 27 Science and Society: I've Got You under My Skin: Transfusion, Transplantation and Cultural Identity in 20th-Century America. Susan Lederer, Ph.D., assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine, and Dr. Timothy L. Pruett, surgeon at U.Va. Health System, will be presenting. This event is co-sponsored with the Health Science Library's History of Health Sciences Lecture Series.

  • April 3 An Unquiet Mind…Personal Reflections on Manic Depression: Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., author and professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Rafael Triana, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the U.Va. Heath System, will be presenting. This event is co-sponsored with the Forum for Contemporary Thought and the Department of Psychiatric Medicine.

  • April 10 School of Nursing Class of 1968 Lectureship: The Unbearable Business of Change-Life in the Health Professions. Madge Kaplan, bureau chief and healthdesk editor for Marketplace, WGBH Radio, Boston, MA, and B. Jeanette Lancaster, Ph.D., R.N., dean of the School of Nursing at U.Va., will be presenting. This event is co-sponsored with the School of Nursing.

  • April 17 Science and Society-Global Health: No Heart of Darkness -Uganda and Response to AIDS. Dr. W. Michael Scheld, neurosurgeon at U.Va. Health System, will be presenting. This event is co-sponsored with the Institute for Practical Ethics and the Center for Global Health.

  • April 24 Money, Medicine and Patient -Physician Relationship. Dr. Wendy Levinson, physician at the University of Chicago Medical Center, will be presenting.

  • May 1 Gibson Lecture, University of Virginia Cancer Center: Health Screening -What's it Worth? Presenters to be announced.

For more information, contact the Department of Humanities in Medicine at (434) 924-2094.

January 15, 2002