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The Medical Center Hour: When the Famous Get Sick and When the Sick Get Famous4/2/08 - Barron Lerner of Columbia disscusses people whose fame rests as much (or more) on illness as on life accomplishments. Celebrity patients have increasingly divulged diagnoses, and the
media and public have increasingly claimed a right to know. In a society where medical advances are headline news, we make stars out of patients on the leading edge of medical therapeutics. |
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer 3/20/08 - Devra Davis is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. A National Book Award Finalist for When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution (Basic Books, 2004), she has written more than 170 scientific publications and edited 11 books. Davis has held advisory roles in national and international agencies including the World Health Organization, and has received numerous awards for her work in environmental health. Here she speaks at the Miller Center of Public Affairs on March 20. |
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The Medical Center Hour: A Conversation About History and the Healing Arts: One Scholar's Journey3/12/08 - This Medical Center Hour is a conversation with distinguished historian and literary scholar Brian Stock, expert on (among other subjects) the history of reading and its connections with meditation and self-knowledge who actually began his studies as a student of medicine. How has his work evolved across his career, and what connections does he see now between his scholarship and a continuing interest in science, therapeutics, and the dynamics of healing? |
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The Health Care Crisis: Contours of the Debate3/10/08 - Arthur Garson, Jr. is Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Virginia, and the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Health Science and Public Policy. He became Vice President and Dean of U.Va.'s School of Medicine in 2002. Garson has served as President of the American College of Cardiology (1999-2000), and as chair of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He treats children with heart disease in his medical practice. Carolyn L. Engelhard is Assistant Professor of Medical Education and a health policy analyst in the Department of Public Health Sciences at U.Va.'s School of Medicine. Director of the Master of Science program in clinical research, she is a consultant for state health and Medicaid agencies. This Forum is a prelude to the Miller Center's National Discussion and Debate Series' debate on the health care crisis on April 9 in Boston. Garson and Engelhard's accompanying white paper will be posted at www.millercenter.virginia.edu/public/debates/healthcare. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness2/27/08 - Nancy Berlinger, author of "After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness," draws on insights from scholarship in religion and culture to suggest how forgiveness, long recognized as having a restorative role between individuals and within communities, might inform health professionals' response to medical error. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Beyond, Not By, the Numbers: Qualitative Research in Medical Education2/20/08 - Janet Hafler of Tufts University discusses the School of Medicine's new emphasis on medical education research and examines the particular role and value of qualitative research in helping us to understand and appraise how doctors are made. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Who's Working for Whom? Commercialization of Biomedical Research and Education2/13/08 - Patricia Tereskerz, Madaline Harrison and Erik Hewlett discuss conflicts of interest involving physicians, especially those practicing in academic health centers, that are at once less obvious and more substantive today than just pharmaceutical company sponsorship of lunches or CME opportunities. Physician judgment is susceptible to external influence, and institutions are not only drafting policies but also developing ways to help physicians recognize and manage conflicts. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Beyond Safety and Efficacy: Should the FDA Consider Ethics in Drug Approvals?2/6/08 - Fran Hawthorne, journalist and author, and Richard A. Merrill, former UVA Law School
dean and council for the FDA, discuss the increasing pressure on the FDA to take into account the
ethics of the drugs before it. |
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