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The Medical Center Hour: Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America 11/19/08 - Consensus that the system is ineffectual and calls for health care reform have produced
varied solutions with bedeviling details. Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD outlines the essential elements
of an effective, sustainable health care system and promotes comprehensive change. Co-presenters:
Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, School of Law's Sadie Lewis Webb Program. |
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Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy 11/13/08 - Keith Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University and current director of graduate studies in the Department of Politics. He has published widely on American constitutional theory and development, federalism, judicial politics, and the presidency. He has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow and American Council of Learned Societies Junior Faculty Fellow, and a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He is currently working on a political history of the judicial review of federal statutes and a volume of cases and materials on American constitutionalism. |
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The Medical Center Hour: The Health of Charlottesville: Diagnosing and Caring for Our Community 11/12/08 - What are the biggest health-related challenges facing Charlottesville-Albemarle? Using
a new community-wide assessment and strategic plan, how can we improve overall health? Speakers:
Lillian Peake, MD, MPH and Mayor Dave Norris. Co-presenters: Department of Public Health Sciences, Center on Health Disparities, and Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Are We Really Ready for Health Care Reform? 11/5/08 - Description=Health care accessibility and affordability require improvement, but true reform
dictates revolutionizing the health care delivery system. Speaker Joanne Disch, Ph.D. advocates a
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The Medical Center Hour: Novel Paradigms for Personalized Therapy and Drug Discovery in Cancer 10/29/08 - Moving beyond trial-and-error treatments, cancer researchers see a breakthrough on the
horizon: patient-specific, individualized therapy based on physiology, overall health, and disease
type and stage. UVa urologist Dan Theodorescu explores personalized medicine: Where are we in the quest for customized cancer treatment? How will it benefit patients, medicine, and society?
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The Medical Center Hour: An Environmental Health Science Revolution: New Opportunities to Prevent Disease 10/22/08 - New research reveals that environmental contaminants at low levels alter gene expression, resulting in inadequate current health safety standards. Experts Peterson Myers, Ph.D. and Jonathan Z. Cannon, J.D examine how scientific insights can yield both better health standards and benefits. Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Culture-as-Disability? Therapeutic Itineraries and the Question of Knowledge 10/15/08 - Ghana-born literary scholar Ato Quayson places his own development as a disability
studies scholar within the wider context of attitudes toward disability in Africa and elsewhere,
paying particular attention to the unexamined belief systems and attitudes that underwrite
therapeutic itineraries, both biomedical and otherwise. Co-presented with the Department of English. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Overcoming Literacy-Related Barriers to Health 10/8/08 - Approximately 90 million Americans have trouble reading, understanding, and following
through on health information and instructions. What are the literacy-related barriers to health?
How can health care institutions, communities, libraries, and individual health professionals
promote and improve health literacy? Co-presented by Claude Moore Health Sciences Library's Health
Literacy Working Group.
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