Health Humanities Grand Rounds "Disability Studies: Rewriting Democracy" Presented by Marion Quirici, Ph.D., Co-director of the Health Humanities Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University In this talk, Dr. Quirici will discuss her experiences designing and supervising publicly engaged writing assignments that get college students involved in disability justice activism in the campus... Read more »
If you were to visit the doctor, would you be considered a difficult patient? How do you know? What makes a patient “difficult”? In her presentation, Yolonda Wilson will discuss the meaning of that label and how that label shapes interactions between patients and providers. She will argue that some patients are more susceptible to... Read more »
The COVID-19 pandemic has shined an ugly light on the longstanding racial and ethnic health disparities that persist in our country. Coupled with the televised murder of George Floyd, these... Read more »
Health Humanities Grand Rounds hosts Dr. Mike Winstead, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UNC. "The Transplanted Self: Genetics, Race and Pragmatism in Stem Cell Transplantation" Medicine describes the immune system's distinction between normal and diseased cells as an immunological "self." Receiving a stem cell or bone marrow transplant combines the immunological "selves" of donor... Read more »
Come learn about the health humanities programs at UNC! Find them in Greenlaw 524 at 4 p.m. on November 10. Register to attend.
