UF Synergies: The Politics of Pandemics in a Global Frame; April 19 @4pm

UF Synergies talk by Tedder Family Doctoral Fellows on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 @ 4:00 pm Suvendu Ghatak (Ph.D Student, English) – “Malarial Modernity: Colonialism and the Politics of Health in Modern South Asia” In this presentation, Suvendu Ghatak will describe how in colonial South Asia, malaria became marked as the pathology of primitivity and degeneracy. Reading […]

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

Thursday, March 16th, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Slow Medicine: Time and the Art of Healing Dr 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 […]

History of Science and Medicine Lecture Series February 8, 15, and 22nd 2023

History of Science and Medicine Lecture series: Yellow Fever in America: Epidemics, medicine, and race in 18th and 19th century America. Contact person: Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig nstoyan@ufl.edu These events are made possible by funding from the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, Margaret and Robert Rothman Endowment. Title: Benjamin Rush and the American transition from colony to republic […]

Health Humanities Panel April 5 at 6:00 pm

This event would like to be a mentoring moment for students to learn more about health humanities and what UF has ready to offer them. It will also be a get-together opportunity for faculty who have been passionately working in advancing health humanities within UF. This event is sponsored by One Health Center of Excellence(opens in […]

Forum on Health, Medicine, and Culture

Five distinguished speakers from different disciplines presented their current work, followed by attendees break-out sessions to raise awareness of the diversity of work happening at UF, identify potential overlap in our interests, and discuss opportunities for collaboration.

Speakers:

Michael S. Okun, M.D. “Bridging the Cultural and Language Divide in Parkinson’s Disease”

Dr. Okun is considered a world’s authority on Parkinson’s disease treatment, and his publications provide a voice and an outlet to empower people…

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