Slow Medicine: Time and the Art of Healing
Thursday, March 16th, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Dr Victoria Sweet will be part of the Seminar Series for Medical Education week at the University of Florida. https://education.med.ufl.edu/faculty-development/the-society-of-teaching-scholars/medical-education-week-2/ She will also be giving the AOA talk at the annual banquet for the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society that evening, on “What I wish someone had told me before I started my internship!”
ABOUT DR. SWEET
Dr. Sweet is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a prize-winning historian with a Ph.D. in history. She practiced medicine for over twenty years at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, where she began writing.
Fall 2021 Zoom Event “Chronicles of Contagion”
Sponsored by the UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment) and the Albert Brick Professorship
As we continue to grapple with the COVID-19 crisis, this event brings together cultural critics and historians to have a wide-ranging conversation across the domains of epidemiology, microbiology, politics, and literature. We will explore the histories of our pandemic present, as well as examine how the current pandemic is deeply tied with our civic and cultural life.
The Collective for Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Medicine and Culture (CISMAC) at the University of Florida is extremely pleased to welcome speakers Priscilla Wald (Duke University; “A Germ’s Eye View: Changing the Story of Covid-19 and Why That Matters”), Alex Chase-Levenson (University of Pennsylvania; “Quarantine and European Sanitary Citizenship, 1800-1850”), and Lorenzo Servitje (Lehigh University; “The Political and Literary Careers of Antimicrobials”). Please join us via Zoom on November 5, 2021 from 3pm-4:30pm.
Register here or at the following link: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIudeGhrj4iHtTLPYVtb1lgBRmFwoX7pI-x
Speaker Details:
Priscilla Wald is the R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English at Duke University working in American literature and culture, specializing in the late-18th to mid-20th centuries as well as contemporary narratives of science and medicine. She is the author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (Duke University Press, 2007) and the co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science (2020).
Alex Chase-Levenson is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania working on borders and boundaries in nineteenth-century Europe, histories of liberalism, and public health. He is the author of The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780-1860 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Lorenzo Servitje is an Associate Professor of literature and medicine, with a dual appointment in English and Health, Medicine, and Society at Lehigh University. He is the author of Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture (SUNY Press 2021) and co-editor of the collections: The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image (Penn State Press, 2016), Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory (Palgrave, 2016), and Syphilis and Subjectivity: From the Victorians to the Present (Palgrave, 2017).
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