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The Medical Center Hour: The Politics of Vaccination in American History 9/17/08 - Vaccination policy and practices have always been challenged. While the science of
vaccination has often seemed straightforward, the politics of vaccination is quite another matter.
Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life and the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Can Adolescents Refuse Medical Treatment? 9/10/08 - he news media regularly highlight incidents in which adolescents with serious, even
life-threatening, illnesses challenge medical recommendations and refuse efficacious life-saving
treatment. Such cases, aside from their celebrity, often represent wrenching, potentially divisive dilemmas for families and pose difficult ethical and legal challenges to health professionals and health care systems. |
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Civil War Reconciliation7/25/08 - During the Civil War, Winchester witnessed some of the bloodiest battles for control of
the Shenandoah Valley and suffered under Union occupation. Jonathan Noyalas (LFCC) tells how Union veterans' return to the Valley in 1883 sparked a spirit of reconciliation. Also: Spencer Crew (GMU) looks at the Underground Railroad and makes a connection to activism in the modern world. And James Robertson (VT) shows that many modern conveniences that have their origin in the
Civil War. |
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Was Ronald Reagan Right? Do Trees Cause Pollution? 6/6/08 - During the presidential election in 1980, candidate Ronald Reagan made news headlines by proclaiming that trees caused pollution. Though the comment was met with derision, there is strong evidence that plants can and do affect the chemistry of the atmosphere. Manuel Lerdau, professor of Environmental Sciences and Director of Blandy Farm, discusses how in this lecture to alumni during Reunions Weekend 2008. |
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How We Got Here and Where We're Going 6/6/08 - Where did the atoms in our bodies come from? How did they get here to Earth? Associate Professor of Astronomy Edward Murphy traces the history of your atoms from the Big Bang to the present day, and gives preview of what will happen to them in the long-distant future.
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The Controlling Weight of Rhetoric in Presidential Elections 6/6/08 - American history turns on the good or woeful oral advocacy of presidential candidates.
Kennedy won, in large part, because he followed the teachings of rhetoric experts Aristotle and Cicero. Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry lost close elections because they did not. In this podcast, Law professor Robert Sayler uses media clips to demonstrate how recent presidential elections have been won and lost. Can the tenets of classical rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos) be applied to this year |
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Miller Center Forum: Re-engage: America and the World After Bush 5/19/08 - Helena Cobban is a veteran writer, researcher, and program organizer on global affairs. She is a contributing editor of Boston Review, where her recent articles have included essays on Lebanese and Palestinian issues as well as Rwanda. She has also written for the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, The Economist, and Salon.com, and she maintains the blog "Just World News." Cobban has published six books, including Amnesty after Atrocity? Healing Nations after Genocide and War Crimes and The Moral Architecture of World Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss Our Global Future. She has worked as a journalist in the Middle East for the Christian Science Monitor and the Sunday Times of London and has led various non-governmental bodies. In addition to holding research fellowships at Harvard, Georgetown, and the Brookings Institution, she has taught at the Institut des Etudes Politiques and Eastern Mennonite University. |
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Miller Center Forum: Presidential Leadership 5/15/08 - Evan Thomas, Newsweek's Editor at Large since 2006, is the magazine's lead writer on major news stories and the author of more than 100 cover stories and many longer features including special behind-the-scenes issues on presidential elections. He has been a regular panelist on the syndicated public affairs talk show Inside Washington since 1992 and has appeared on numerous television shows including Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Thomas is the author of six books, including Sea of Thunder, Robert Kennedy: His Life, and The Very Best Men: The Early Years of the CIA. A fellow of the Society of American Historians and a former trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, he began a five-year term at Princeton as Ferris Professor of Journalism in the fall of 2007. |
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