Podcast of Barry Goldstein's, "BEING THERE: MEDICAL STUDENT SERVICE AFTER 9/11"
For months following September 11, 2001, 20 NYU medical students volunteered in the office of the city's chief medical examiner to sort, catalog, and identify human remains. Interested in these students' experiences, scientist-artist Barry Goldstein photographed and interviewed them. His exhibit, Being There, explores the complex impulses that prompted students to volunteer and the challenges and consequences of their service.Reception following the program in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Dr. Goldstein's photographic exhibit will be on view in the Library from September 10-14.
Podcast of Paul Root Wolpe's "DISPLAYING DEAD AND DIFFERENT BODIES: SPECTACLE/SIDESHOW/EDUCATION?"
It's rare today in the developed world to encounter a cadaver, see human viscera, or confront bodies that bear significant disfigurement. Society has segregated these specimens of bodily presentation, allowing only medical, police and military personnel to transgress these secret places of human embodiment. Now, touring exhibits of plastinated, dissected human cadavers are drawing crowds. What's our fascination when we behold the body so exhibited? Who should have access to dead or irregular bodies? What are the ethics of human display?
Podcast of Mindy Thompson Fullilove's, "ROOT SHOCK: THE IMPACT OF URBAN RENEWAL ON HEALTH"
Urban renewal projects in the 1950s-1970s bulldozed entire districts and traumatically displaced hundreds of African American communities. The residents of these areas experienced "root shock" from the destruction of their physical and emotional ecosystems. With this perspective on urban renewal, including projects like Charlottesville's Vinegar Hill, what can we learn about the health status of urban African Americans and the health of our cities and neighborhoods?
WHAT IS "DEAD" ANYWAY? DETERMINING DEATH FOR PURPOSES OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
When organ and tissue transplantation is a possibility, how do physicians determine that a prospective donor has died so that organs may be procured? Understanding the history as well as the science of determining death can help clinicians, families, and even prospective donors manage this challenging emotional and psychological aspect of transplantation medicine.
Beyond Safety and Efficacy: Should the FDA Consider Ethics in Drug Approvals?
By law and tradition, the federal Food and Drug Administration is supposed to consider only two factors when it analyzes new drugs for approval: Is the drug safe, and does it work? But as medical therapeutics delve deeper into controversial areas such as use of human embryonic stem cells, cloning, and birth control that resembles abortion, the FDA is increasingly pressured to take into account the ethics of the drugs that come before it. Few people would deny that many drugs raise important issues of social and biological ethics. The question is, is the FDA the right place to discuss them?
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series and the Sadie Lewis Webb Program in Biomedicine and the Law of the School of Law
12 March 2008, Wednesday, 12:30-1:30 pm Brian Stock PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Thinking about Healing-One Scholar's Journey
This Medical Center Hour is a conversation with distinguished historian and literary scholar of the Middle Ages Brian Stock. This expert on (among other subjects) the history of reading and its connections with meditation and self-knowledge 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? Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series and New Literary History
Lou Gehrig, Steve McQueen, Margaret Bourke-White, Rita Hayworth, Barney Clark, Lorenzo Odone (of "Lorenzo's Oil")-these persons' fame rests as much (or more) on illness as on their life-accomplishments. Beginning with Gehrig, celebrity patients have increasingly divulged their diagnoses, and the media and public have increasingly claimed a right to know. Further, in a society where medical advances are headline news, we make stars out of patients on the leading edge of medical therapeutics. But while celebrity illnesses give us opportunities to learn about diseases and treatments, at the same time they can be sources of misleading information.
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