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Upcoming Events

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2002
- Humanities in Medicine Lecture
Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry; Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University
Global War and Disease: The Making of Modern Bodies
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2003
- Humanities in Medicine Lecture
Erica Charters, PhD, Associate Professor of the History of Medicine; Director, Oxford Centre for Global History, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, The University of Oxford

Past Events

2019 McGovern Lecture - Defining Death: Persistent Problems and Possible Solutions

Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 5:45pm

Great Hall, Trent Semans Center for Health Education

Robert Truog, MD, Harvard Medical School
Challenges in Setting Thresholds for Understanding in Research Informed Consent
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2003
- Humanities in Medicine Lecture
Kevin Weinfurt, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine
2019 Boyarsky Lecture - More Just, More Humane: Reimagining the Social Role of Medicine

Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 5:45pm

Great Hall, Trent Semans Center for Health Education

Arno Kumagai, MD, University of Toronto