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Upcoming Events for Late April and May 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015: “Of Mummies and Skeletons: When the Dead Teach the Living”
4:00 PM
Harvard Hall 201
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Prof. Dr. med Frank Ruehli, MD, PhD: Director, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich
King Tutankhamen, Oetsi ‘the Iceman’ from the Alps, Iranian salt mummies, mummies from Peru – Prof. Dr. med Frank Ruehli has examined and written about them all. Prof. Ruehli is the Director of the University of Zurich’s Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, a world-renowned research institute that focuses on the interdisciplinary study of the health and disease of the past, the pathologies of the present, and the medical treatments of the future.
A presentation about how the study of disease in the past directly affects how we define the nature of disease today, Prof. Ruehli’s lecture will be of utility for anthropologists (biological, physical, medical, and social), biologists, historians, archaeologists, and medical professionals alike and will offer a rigorous and thought-provoking approach to the study of health and disease.
Sponsored by the Harvard University Department of the Classics.
Questions? Contact Katie Vanschaik at katherine_vanschaik@hms.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015: “Vital Conversations: Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients”
Health Information Lunchtime Lecture Series
12:00 PM
Book signing reception to follow with light refreshments
Lahey Room, 5th Floor
Countway Library
10 Shattuck St.
Boston, MA 02115
Dennis Rosen, MD: Associate Medical Director of the Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
The health-care system in the United States is by far the most expensive in the world, yet its outcomes are decidedly mediocre in comparison with those of other countries. Poor communication between doctors and patients, Dr. Rosen argues, is at the heart of this disparity, a pervasive problem that damages the well-being of the patient and the integrity of the health-care system and society.
Please RSVP to Kim Ripley at Kimberly_Ripley@hms.harvard.edu or 617-432-8326.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015: “Routine Medical Care: Perspectives from the Practice of Dr. Richard Cabot”
11th Annual J. Worth Estes MD History of Medicine Lecture
6:00 PM
Cannon Room
Building C
240 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Christopher Crenner, MD, PhD: Robert Hudson and Ralph Major Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center
Dr. Richard Cabot, a leader of the early twentieth-century profession, was by turns both a prominent advocate for and an incisive critic of medicine at the turn of the century. His writings and letters help to document new and persisting dilemmas emerging in the daily practice of medicine.
Presented by the Boston Medical Library.
Please RSVP to Kim Ripley at Kimberly_Ripley@hms.harvard.edu or 617-432-8326. If you require parking for hte event, please specify this in your RSVP.
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