January 2008
Medical Humanities Grand Rounds (MHGR): Perspectives on Death and Dying: Story, Agency, and Cultural Constructions of Death and Dying
January 22 - 5 PM - Parnassus (Toland Hall)

Mount Zion Hospital Lunchtime Lecture: The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America
January 24 - 12 Noon - Mount Zion

SFGH Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Flogging a Dead Horse: CPR, Cinema, and Sacrifice
January 29 - 12 Noon - SFGH

November 2007

Medical Humanities Grand Rounds (MHGR) Flyer (PDF)
Music, Medicine and Creativity
November 19 - 5:00-6:30 PM - Cole Hall, Parnassus
Featuring: Kitty Margolis and Alfonso Montuori
Intro: Audrey Shafer, MD (Stanford University)
Coda: Heather Hall, MD, David Watts, MD, Michael Weiner, MD, William Young, MD, Patrick Fox, PhD.
Contact organizer: Julene Johnson, PhD (neurology) and William Young, MD (vice-chair, anesthesia)

Margaret Clarke Memorial Lecture in Medical Anthropology
November 2, 2007 at 12:00 pm
HSW 300 (UCSF Parnassus Campus)
Professor Judith Barker, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, UCSF

Social Medicine Grand Rounds (PDF flyer for autumn presentations)

Thursday Sept 20 2007: 3:30-5:00 PM Laurel Heights Room 474
“Autism and Risk: Care and Controversy” Discussion by Sharon Kaufman, PhD (Institute for Health and Aging) and Niranjan Karnik, MD, PhD (Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)

Thursday October 18 2007: 3:30-5:00 PM Laurel Heights Room 474
“Unhealthy Charity? The Responses of Women with Breast Cancer to Pink Ribbon Fundraising” Samantha King, PhD (Queen’s University, Canada)

"Turning Your Idea into a Published Book: An Editor Tells You Everything You Need to Know" (July 18, 2007)
Jacqueline Wehmueller (B.A., M.L.A., Johns Hopkins University) is Executive Editor at the Johns Hopkins University Press where she publishes trade, professional, and course books. Her authors include historians and medical researchers and practitioners. She is the author of magazine articles and co-author of a Johns Hopkins Press Health Book.
View the PowerPoint presentation. View the Word handout.

Area of Concentration Annual Symposium
(May 3, 2007 Millberry Union)
Poster session and oral presentations from each of the AoC themes, including this year's cohort of Medical Humanities students. See the results of legacies ranging from a documentary film, works of fiction, photographic ethnography, and poetry.

Annual Chauncey Leake Public Lecture in History of Health Sciences
(April 26, 2007 Lange Room, Klamanovitz Library)
Dr. Keith Wailoo, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History, Rutgers University
"How Cancer Crossed the Color Line"
More details here.