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The Medical Center Hour: Corporate Ethics and Biotechnology4/4/07 - Kem Hawkins of the Cook Group, Inc., addresses how does the head of a large company views his corporation's, and his own, ethical obligations: Are there special ethical considerations when the company is a major developer and purveyor of biotechnology, when its products and profits are closely bound to human health? |
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Mind Bugs: The Ordinary Origins of Bias 3/31/07 - Many mental activities occur outside of conscious awareness or control, including thoughts that are relevant to social life. Brian Nosek, Assistant Professor of Psychology, demonstrates to reveal how some common operations of the mind can mislead us to see things that are not there, think things that we do not believe, and do things that we do not expect. |
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The Changing Role of Genes in Cognitive Aging and Dementia 3/30/07 - Dr. Nancy Pedersen is chair of the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Much of her work involves the effects and causes of dementia. She gave the 2007 Aston-Gottesman Lecture in a talk titled "Still Heritable After All Those Years? The Changing Role of Genes in Cognitive Aging and Dementia." |
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The Medical Center Hour: Empathy for Health Care Professionals3/28/07 - Distinguished medical educator Richard Frankel of Indiana University School of Medicine offers his perspective on how to improve doctor-patient communication. What's at stake in the patient-physician relationship and in communication between doctor and patient, and how does the setting in which the patient sees the doctor affect the nature and outcomes of their interaction? |
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The Medical Center Hour: Stiff: The Secret Lives of Human Cadavers3/21/07 - This conversation with independent author Mary Roach explores her experiences in researching and writing about the busy, and beneficial, (after)lives of human cadavers. Co-presented with the Virginia Festival of the Book. |
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Disciplining Death: The Politics of Terminal Care Reform in Connecticut 3/20/07 - Dr. Joy Buck identifies the key players and societal conditions that led to the creation of the modern hospice movement in the United States. Focusing on the activities of the hospice creators in the State of Connecticut, Dr. Buck outlines the establishment of Hospice, Inc., the nation's first home hospice care program, and traces the challenges faced by the creators as they worked with patients, their families, and the health care professionals to provide a caring and responsive environment for the dying. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Docs in the Box: Medicine, Morals and Media3/14/07 - Les Friedman, Ph.D., of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, discusses how American television feeds the public's fascination with medicine and with those who practice it. What else might be going on when we tune in? Might media portrayals also shape our expectations of who the doctor is and what he or she is able to do? |
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Hunger in Our World 3/12/07 - A MacArthur "genius grant" winner and medical anthropologist, Paul Farmer is a champion of health and human rights and an expert on the role of social inequities as they relate to infectious diseases. |
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