Events
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Dec 02, 2009:
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Jan 06, 2010:
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Feb 03, 2010:
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Mar 03, 2010:
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Apr 07, 2010:
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May 05, 2010:
Date:
Dec 02, 2009 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
The Faculty Club of CUMC: 446 P&S Building 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
Speaker(s):
Virgil Wong
Event Description
Artist and filmmaker Wong’s work grapples with bioethically vexed medical technologies – including nanorobots, a smart-as-human genetically engineered mouse, and a male pregnancy program. His fictional “RYT-Dwayne Medical Center” (www.rythospital.com) had been called “disarmingly authentic” by the New York Times.
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are usually held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 7 pm in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
Jan 06, 2010 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
The Faculty Club of CUMC: 446 P&S Building 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
Speaker(s):
Cortney Davis
Event Description
Nurse-poet and memoirist Davis reads from her new collection, The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing. Richard Selzer has said the collection “should be required reading at every nursing school in the country. In writing of the highest quality, it offers a powerful and moving portrait of what it means to be a nurse."
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are usually held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 7 pm in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
Feb 03, 2010 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
The Faculty Club of CUMC: 446 P&S Building 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
Speaker(s):
Robin Romm
Event Description
Romm reads from her acclaimed book The Mercy Papers: A Memoir in Three Weeks, written about the three weeks prior to her mother’s death. In a front cover review, the New York Times Book review called it “a furious blaze of a book.”
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are usually held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 7 pm in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
Mar 03, 2010 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
The Faculty Club of CUMC: 446 P&S Building 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
Speaker(s):
Shamita Das Dasgupta
Event Description
Domestic violence activist and faculty at New York University Law School, Dasgupta reads from Mothers for Sale: Women in Kolkata’s Sex Trade. Based on hundreds of interviews with women and children sex workers in India, this book focuses on motherhood, sex work, and human rights in local and national contexts.
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are usually held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 7 pm in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
Apr 07, 2010 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
The Faculty Club of CUMC: 446 P&S Building 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue
Speaker(s):
Susan Squier
Event Description
Author of Babies in Bottles: Twentieth Century Visions of Reproductive Technology, and Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human Frontiers of Biomedicine, Squier is professor of English and women’s studies at Penn State. She speaks on her latest work, graphic fiction of illness and disability.
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are usually held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 7 pm in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
May 05, 2010
Location:
The Faculty Club of CUMC: 446 P&S Building 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
Speaker(s):
Ekiwah Adler-Belendez
Event Description
Called a child prodigy when he published his first book of poetry Soy (I am) at age 12, Adler-Belendez has lectured and read widely throughout North America from his books of Spanish and English poems. Born with cerebral palsy, Adler-Belendez has said that, "I cannot walk by myself, yet in my poems I not only walk, but give myself license to have eight legs and experience movement."
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are usually held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 7 pm in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
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