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Braving the Frowns of Those Around Them: Civil War Nursing in Charlottesville 1861-1865 10/18/05 - U.VA School of Nursing Ph.D student Barbara Maling presents a lecture on Southern women who rendered nursing care in Charlottesville during the Civil War. Maling describes how the town became an overflow site when Richmond |
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History of the Health Sciences - Climate Change, Human Agency, and Health in Early America 10/13/05 - James R. Fleming (Colby College and the Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum) looks at the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Rush, and Noah Webster that reflect their thoughts on the relationship of climate and health, and the lasting implications of these ideas for the Lewis and Clark Expedition and a subsequent generation of American climatologists and physicians. |
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Medical Center Hour - Public/Private Partnerships10/12/05 - Can public/private partnerships help remedy health disparities? This panel discussion includes Barbara DeBuono of the Pfizer Public Health Group, Randy Axelrod of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Jane Woods and Arthur Garson, Dean of the U.Va School of Medicine. |
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Medical Center Hour - The Cultural Meaning of Anatomical Representation10/5/05 - A discussion of how the study of anatomy has changed over time from a public spectacle to a medical affair. Featuring Michael Sappol with National Library of Medicine, and cell biologist Virginia Taylor Lyons of U.Va. |
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Medical Center Hour - Engineering activity back into our lives9/28/05 - How can Americans reverse the dual trends of obesity and inactive lifestyles? This panel features ideas from many disciplines: Arthur Weltman, director of U.Va's Exercise Physiologies Laboratories; U.Va kinesiologist Glenn Gaesser; Nancy McLaren, U.Va Teen Health Center; Timothy Beatley, U.Va Department of Urban and Environmental Planning. |
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Medical Center Hour: Can We Teach Humanism in Medicine? 9/21/05 - Can the qualities, attitudes, and behaviors that we call "humanistic" be taught to medical students and residents, and if so, how is this best done and by whom? Three faculty winners of the School of Medicine's Humanism in Medicine Award take up these questions and offer their ideas: Eugene Foley, M.D.; Mark Mendehlsohn, M.D.; and Christine M. Peterson, M.D.. |
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Medical Center Hour: Robert M. Wachter on medical mistakes9/14/05 - Why are errors so commonplace in American medicine? How do they happen? Who is responsible? What needs to be done to cure this troubling epidemic? Drawing on personal experience and extensive research, physician Dr. Robert Wachter wrote about this topic in his book Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes. In this Medical Center Hour, he draws on powerful cases from clinical medicine as well as anaologies from other industries, and offers practical tips on how we might reduce error and achieve greater patient safety. His talk is followed by comments from Dr. Margaret Plews-Organ with the U.Va Medical Center's Department of Internal Medicine. |
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2005 State of the Nursing School Address 8/29/05 - On August 29, Dean Jeanette Lancaster delivered the 2005 State of the School Address in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. Other features of this annual event included the introduction of new faculty and staff, updates on research and academic programs, and a financial report. A highlight was the presentation by Mark Stanis, Senior Project Manager for the School |
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