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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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Obama and McCain Advisers Debate Health Care Proposals at U.Va. 10/1/08 - Arthur Garson Jr., vice president and provost at U.Va. and the former dean of the School of Medicine, hosted a debate between senior medical advisers to the McCain and Obama campaigns on Wednesday at the University of Virginia. Irwin Redlener, representing Democrat Barack Obama's campaign, and William Winkenwerder Jr., representing Republican John McCain, spoke about their proposals in the Dome Room of U.Va.'s Rotunda. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Dissection, Deception, and Resurrection 10/1/08 - Anatomy is an integral and sometimes controversial part of medical education. The
University of Virginia and the Medical College of Virginia cooperated and competed to obtain human
dissection material for instruction in the 1800s. Co-presented with History of the Health Sciences
Lecture Series, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. |
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Women in Leadership and Philanthropy at U.Va. 9/27/08 - The inaugural Women in Leadership Conference was held at the University of Virginia Sept. 26-27, 2008, featuring distinguished speakers and panels on contemporary topics in the worlds of business, public life, science and the arts. Speakers in this panel included Marcia Day Childress, Adom Getachew, Yoke San Reynolds and Karin Wittenborg. The panel was moderated by Suzan Garson. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Patients and Families as Mentors: Growth and Development of a Pediatrician 9/24/08 - This lecture celebrates the humanistic values at the heart of doctoring |
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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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