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The Medical Center Hour: Will You Vaccinate Your Daughter Against Cervical Cancer?2/21/07 - Michael Rein, M.D., and Mark Stoler, M.D., of UVA give the 2007 Gibson Lecture of the Cancer Center, discussing the new vaccine against cancer-causing strains of human papilloma virus that promises to virtually eradicate cervical cancer, yet Gardasil's use is not without controversy. Who should be vaccinated? At what age? At what risks? Who decides? Should vaccination be mandatory? Who pays? |
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Race, Gender and the New Political Landscape 2/15/07 - Mary Frances Berry, former U.S. civil rights commissioner and longtime activist, speaks at the University of Virginia on Feb. 15 in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium. Berry is the keynote speaker for Black History Month and heads the list of several notable visitors and events being held at the University. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Reframing Disability: New Ways of Seeing and Representing Disability2/14/07 - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Ph.D., of Emory University and Walt Davis, M.D., of UVA discuss how we view, define and represent persons with disabilities and how it reflects our social and cultural values, including our ideas of what's "normal." How might new portraits of disability help to reframe our understanding? |
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Jacqueline Jordan Irvine Delivers Ridley Lecture 2/7/07 - Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Urban Education at Emory University, was the second featured speaker in the annual Walter Ridley Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Virginia on Feb. 7. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Doesn't a Bird Fly By? Credibility and Surprise in Writing and Art2/7/07 - Ann Beattie, distinguished fiction writer, and Lincoln Perry, celebrated painter, help answer the question, "What's the creative process all about?" by offering their views on the making of their art and on the artistic life, including their life together as husband and wife. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Remembering Chris Jebson: What the Patient Taught Her Doctor1/31/07 - Dr. Laurel Rice of UVA and Mr. Bob Jebson, widower of a patient, together deliver the annual Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture of the School of Medicine, which this year discusses what attentive physicians might learn from their patients about the impact of illness. |
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Nobel Prize Winner Theodor Hänsch: A Passion for Precision 1/25/07 - Nobel Prize-winning physicist Theodor W. Hänsch presents his lecture, |
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The Medical Center Hour: Race-Based Therapeutics1/24/07 - Gregg Bloche of Georgetown School of Law and Norm Oliver of UVA's School of Medicine discuss a
new generation of pharmaceuticals seeking to take account of biologic
variations distinguishing subpopulations crudely denoted as racial groups. |
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