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American Democracy Conference 2005 - Seeing Red: What's Next for the Republicans? 12/1/05 - Chuck Todd of The Hotline moderates a panel discussion about the current problems faced by the Republican party. The panel of pollsters include John Brabender, Kellyanne Conway, Linda DiVall, Tony Fabrizio, and Craig Shirley. |
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American Democracy Conference 2005 - Seeing Red: What's Next for the Republicans?12/1/05 - Chuck Todd of The Hotline moderates a panel discussion with pollsters and media consultants about the current problems facing the Republican party. The panel consists of John Brabender, Kellyanne Conway, Linda DiVall, Tony Fabrizio, and Craig Shirley. |
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History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series - Haunting Images: Dissection, Photography, and American Medical Students 11/30/05 - Medical students began to photograph the cadaver dissection process barely five years after the advent of the daguerreotype, as a way to preserve this central event of their medical education. James Edmonson, Ph.D., discusses the rise and fall of this phenomena and how we look at this period of history today. |
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Medical Center Hour - Cultural Impact of Once and Future Plagues11/9/05 - In the Middle Ages, waves of bubonic plague decimated Europe. What lessons can the past teach us about future plagues and their impact? Herbert Swick with the Institute of Medicine and the Humanities in Missoula, Montana, offers his thoughts. |
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Medical Center Hour - Making the Case for Prevention: Shifting the Focus11/2/05 - Health care in the U.S. focuses mostly on diagnosis rather than prevention. Janet Allen, dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing, discusses how this would save more lives by getting people to avoid risky behavior. This is the Bice Memorial Lecture. |
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History of the Health Sciences - The Last Days of the Iron Lung 11/1/05 - U.Va Professor Emeritus Dudley F. Rochester draws from his personal experience working with the iron lung, once an important tool to treat patients with severe respiratory failure. Rochester talks about the technological advances that made the device obsolete. |
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Medical Center Hour - The Breast10/26/05 - The female breast is at once anatomical structure, source of nourishment and nurture, sexual organ and cultural icon. Maura Spiegel of the Columbia University English Department explains how a deeper understanding of the breast's significance might help patients, families and health professionals. Jennifer Harvey with the U.Va Breast Care Center responds. |
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Medical Center Hour - Pharmacogenomics: Scientific and Ethical Issues10/19/05 - Paul Insel with the University of California, San Diego, discusses the new field of pharmacogenomics - the study of how genetics can predict how patients will respond to drugs. Insel talks about medicine might be changed, and what new social and ethical questions will arise. |
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