On December 7, join us for an enriching conversation leading up to the performance at Forum for Scholars and Publics (Old Chem 011). This Health Humanities Lab-sponsored event will include lunch at 11:45, followed by a conversation at noon on “Genomics, Consent, and the Public Imaginary”. Panelists are the playwright, Deborah Zoe Laufer and Duke Professors, Charmaine[...]
In a course on research ethics, is there any way to fully understand consent processes without embodying ethical (or unethical) choices? Students in Professor Kearsley Stewart’s class will encounter the extremes of ethics as characters in Informed Consent. Written by Deborah Zoe Laufer, this play is based on the true story of research misconduct by Arizona State University researchers[...]
The "Doctors Are In" series brings together a humanities faculty member and a health care provider to engage in conversation on mutual interests, different professional practices and frames for similar concerns. The second event in the series will feature Dr. Laurent Dubois and Dr. Lola Fayanju. The conversation will take place on February 15th, 2018[...]
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Marion Quirici - "Psychiatric Degeneration Theory and Irish Modernism: Blending Sickness with Sin" Presented by the Health Humanities Lab and the Neurohumanities Research Group 5pm-6:30pm Perkins 217 Degeneration theory, a paranoia that the human race was in mental and moral decline, arose in the nineteenth century, when growing industrialization brought with it an increase in psychiatric institutionalization. Degeneration theorists[...]
Attendance is free and open to the public. However, we request that attendees register so we can better coordinate food and parking. Register at duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2r9rMeuNU8S3gYl.
We will be serving dinner at 5:30pm and the film will begin at 5:45pm. A panel will follow the film at 7:15pm. Bending the Arc is a documentary about a team of young people - Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Ophelia Dahl - whose charitable medical work 30 years ago ignited a global health movement.[...]
Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, tells the story of the agonizing illness and the death of its central character. This iconic work of literature portrays Ivan's difficult reflections about a life lived without purpose and his direct experience with suffering and mortality. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is now widely used[...]
The "Doctors Are In" series brings together a humanities scholar and a health care provider to engage in conversation on mutual interests, different professional practices and frames for similar concerns. The third event in this series will feature Dr. Raymond Barfield and Dr. Jeff Polish. Join us for a light reception beginning at 5:15 pm[...]