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Making future histories: risk, prevention and potential of cancer genetics in Southern Brazil.

May 16, 2012
Coming up next week at the DAHSM as part of the 'Women's Health and Empowerment Series', Sahra Gibbon, PhD, Wellcome Trust Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of London, will give a seminar titled 'Making future histories: risk, prevention and potential of cancer genetics in Southern...

Second International Health Humanities Conference - Music, Health, and Humanity

May 11, 2012
The Second International Health Humanities Conference - Music, Health, and Humanity 9, 10, 11 August, 2012 - Montclair State University. The Colleges of the Arts, of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and of Education and Human Services at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA, are hosting...

Call for papers: Pain and Ageing.

May 09, 2012
On October 27, 2012, Birbeck University in London, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, will hold a one-day conference exploring the nature of pain in old age between the 18th and the 20th centuries through the lens of the humanities. The conference strives to be wide-ranging in terms of disciplines...

Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America.

May 03, 2012
DAHSM is glad to announce the publication of a new book, "Prescribed. Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America" edited by Elizabeth S. Watkins, professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the History of Health Sciences Program at UCSF, and Jeremy A. Greene,...

Nancy Burke to receive Zero Breast Cancer community award

April 27, 2012
DAHSM gladly announces that Zero Breast Cancer, a community based non-profit organization in Marin County is bestowing the 13th annual "Honor Thy Healer" award to Nancy Burke, Assistant Professor at DAHSM, for her contributions to our understanding of breast cancer and the healing process, and...

Imaging Truth: Negotiating Expertise and Trust in Radiology

April 23, 2012
Allison Tillack, PhD Candidate of the joint UC Berkeley and UCSF Medical Anthropology Program, will defend tomorrow her PhD dissertation with a talk focused on exploring some of the unexpected consequences of the widespread adoption of PACS (picture archiving and communication systems), a...

Making Sense of Kony: Critical information on the conflict in Northern Uganda.

April 22, 2012
In the storm that has erupted over Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 campaign, one conclusion that people on all sides of the controversy tend to agree upon is the deep, even desperate, need for more information about the conflict in northern Uganda. In an effort to respond to this demand, a group of...

UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, Delivers First “Last Lecture”

April 19, 2012
Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann delivered the University’s inaugural “Last Lecture” today in Cole Hall Auditorium, responding to the speakers’ prompt: “If You Had But One Lecture to Give, What Would You Say?" Hundreds of students voted to hear the Chancellor’s hour-long talk, which coincided with...

'The Healing Art of Writing' conference and workshop

April 19, 2012
"The Healing Art of Writing" Conference and workshop is a unique opportunity for writers and poets in the healing professions and for patients to creatively express their experiences. There are now a limited number of scholarships available for UCSF students and faculty to attend the conference...

Focus on: the unique history of homeopathic medicine in Mexico

April 18, 2012
Homeopathic medicine has had an intriguing and unique history in Mexico. While in many countries homeopathy and conventional or allopathic medicine have uncomfortably co-existed, during the first decades of the 20th century, Mexico's Escuela Nacional de Medicine Homeopatica (ENHM) was incorporated...

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