Carolina Seminar Series – Empowering Trust: Insights from Community Engagement Initiatives
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Decolonize Self-Care ALYSON K. SPURGAS and ZOË MELEO-ERWIN For twentieth-century feminists, it was a rallying cry for bodily autonomy and political power. For influencers and lifestyle brands, it’s buying fancy nutrition and body products at a premium. And it has now infiltrated nearly every food, leisure, and pop-culture space as a hugely lucrative industry. What is … Read more
Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics, and Mental Health Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information. These events are free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics, and Mental Health Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information. These events are free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics, and Mental Health Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information. These events are free and open to the public, but registration is required.
This is an in-person event; Please visit https://tinyurl.com/28eop7ry to register. As the use of in vitro neural platforms like brain organoids and microtissues increases, there is a lack of general knowledge about the limitations of the platforms. Bioethicists and scientists may also have concerns about the implications of the use of these systems in clinical … Read more
President and CEO, The Hastings Center Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Professor, University of Montréal Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, is the President and CEO of The Hastings Center, an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute that is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy institutes in the world. Ravitsky joins … Read more
I. Glenn Cohen Deputy Dean and James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics Prof. Cohen is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called “medical ethics”) and the law, as well as … Read more
We will be providing lunch and ask those attending to let us know if it will be in person or over Zoom by completing the survey. Dr. Victor Chalwe: Topic: The ethics of biological sample transfer: an African perspective Ms. Tiwonge Mtande: Topic: Ethical challenges posed by pragmatic cluster-randomised trials in less developed countries: … Read more
“Attention Grabbing Mental Illnesses” Mental disorder is defined by DSM-5 in terms of dysfunctional cognition, emotion, and behavior. We will argue that mental illnesses can be understood more fundamentally as failures to control attention. Some mental illnesses involve too much attention (and too little ability to adjust focus), whereas others involve too little attention (or … Read more