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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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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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The Medical Center Hour: Big Doctoring: Primary Care in America-- Essential and Endangered2/28/07 - Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., of The George Washington University School of Medicine, discusses "big doctoring," coordinated, comprehensive care over time, which seems to be disappearing from health care in the U.S. If primary care as a specialty and a systematized type of practice is endangered, what else might be at risk?. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Will You Vaccinate Your Daughter Against Cervical Cancer?2/21/07 - Michael Rein, M.D., and Mark Stoler, M.D., of UVA give the 2007 Gibson Lecture of the Cancer Center, discussing the new vaccine against cancer-causing strains of human papilloma virus that promises to virtually eradicate cervical cancer, yet Gardasil's use is not without controversy. Who should be vaccinated? At what age? At what risks? Who decides? Should vaccination be mandatory? Who pays? |
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The Medical Center Hour: Reframing Disability: New Ways of Seeing and Representing Disability2/14/07 - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Ph.D., of Emory University and Walt Davis, M.D., of UVA discuss how we view, define and represent persons with disabilities and how it reflects our social and cultural values, including our ideas of what's "normal." How might new portraits of disability help to reframe our understanding? |
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The Medical Center Hour: Doesn't a Bird Fly By? Credibility and Surprise in Writing and Art2/7/07 - Ann Beattie, distinguished fiction writer, and Lincoln Perry, celebrated painter, help answer the question, "What's the creative process all about?" by offering their views on the making of their art and on the artistic life, including their life together as husband and wife. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Remembering Chris Jebson: What the Patient Taught Her Doctor1/31/07 - Dr. Laurel Rice of UVA and Mr. Bob Jebson, widower of a patient, together deliver the annual Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture of the School of Medicine, which this year discusses what attentive physicians might learn from their patients about the impact of illness. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Race-Based Therapeutics1/24/07 - Gregg Bloche of Georgetown School of Law and Norm Oliver of UVA's School of Medicine discuss a
new generation of pharmaceuticals seeking to take account of biologic
variations distinguishing subpopulations crudely denoted as racial groups. |
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