Diet and Nutrition. Natural Health, and Healthy Living

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Newberry Library
Center for Renaissance Studies
Symposium on Disease and Disability in the Middles Ages and Renaissance
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library

Due to space restrictions, registration in advance is required (see
below).

9:30 a.m. Coffee and continental breakfast

10:00 a.m.

Disability in the Middle Ages

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All I have to say from reviewing this programis "wow." Not to be missed, for those anywhere near New York City on October 7-8, 2009. Keynote speakers are Onora O'Neill, Rita Charon, and Robert Shulman.

Here is the description:

Considerations of the interface between the humanities and medicine have become both more complex and more urgent in recent decades as advances in science have allowed progressively deeper understanding of disease mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities. A progressive technologic transformation of clinical practice has followed from these advances. For medical education as well as clinical practice these movements pose important questions around the directions, even the purposes, of medicine, centering on how best to manage responsibilities to the patient as a suffering person and at the same time attend effectively to the disease as a set of disordered biological processes.
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Rhetorics of Plague: Early / Modern Trajectories of Biohazard

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming symposium titled "Rhetorics of Plague: Early / Modern Trajectories of Biohazard," which will be held February 26-27 in the Standish Room on the University at Albany. As a collaborative project, "Rhetorics of Plague" will be a multi-disciplinary exploration of the connections between 20th- and 21st-century representations and medical models of biological pandemic and those in earlier periods ranging from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. Given the current prospect of devastating epidemic, our aim is to establish a dialogue that can address a diverse range of historical, disciplinary, and conceptual perspectives. Over 30 researchers from several countries and from a number of fields--including anthropology, English, history, religious studies, pharmacology, public health, and Islamic studies--will convene to offer presentations on topics ranging from the Black Death and the arts, to the economics of contagion, to environmental factors of biohazard.

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Drew University, which features a graduate program in medical humanities, is hosting the 3rd Graduate Medical Humanities Symposium Nov. 6-8, 2008:

Speakers include: Norman Daniels, Ph.D., Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Department of Global Health and Populations at the Harvard School of Public Health has agreed to speak on Healthcare as a Right. Dr. Peter Budetti, Bartlett Foundation Professor of Public Health in the Department of Health Administration and Policy in the College of Public Health at OU-Tulsa has agreed to speak on the topic of Market Justice vs. Social Justice. And, Howard Berliner, Ph.D., new Chair and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the SUNY Downstate School of Public Health in Brooklyn, will speak on Current Realities in Healthcare, Race, Economics and Injustice. Paul Hebert, Ph.D. speaking on "When does a difference become a disparity." Currently works at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service, former Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. And, Len Fleck, Ph.d. currently a Professor of Philosophy and Medical Ethics at Michigan State University will speak on The Ethical Challenge of Health care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation.
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