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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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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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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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The Medical Center Hour: Can Adolescents Refuse Medical Treatment? 9/10/08 - he news media regularly highlight incidents in which adolescents with serious, even
life-threatening, illnesses challenge medical recommendations and refuse efficacious life-saving
treatment. Such cases, aside from their celebrity, often represent wrenching, potentially divisive dilemmas for families and pose difficult ethical and legal challenges to health professionals and health care systems. |
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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 Medical Center Hour: Healing Art: Music as Medicine3/19/08 - UVA alumna Anna Kate Oppenheimer, undergraduate Michelle Wang, and the UVA Chamber Singers, directed by Michael Slon, are featured in this Medical Center Hour, talented UVA musicians
who volunteer in hospitals focusing on the appropriateness of particular music for different
circumstances, with musical illustrations on instruments from cello to piano to voice and from a wide range of composers. |
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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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