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2. Animated skeletons and the history of distraction (1:02:20)

Date:
March 26, 2014
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
How should we imagine the history of distraction? Is it true that the internet has made us distracted in a way that we never have been before? And, if it has, is that necessarily bad? What is distr...

3. Constructing for health, lessons from the Vienna Project (58:53)

Date:
November 5, 2014
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
During the enlightenment, from 1765, the Habsburg Empire capital of Vienna underwent massive transformations in urban design and appearance, from the introduction of sewer systems and streetlights ...

5. Dissecting Gray's Anatomy (the book) (1:00:03)

Date:
January 29, 2014
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
In 1858, young English surgeons Henry Gray and Henry VanDyke Carter published an illustrated anatomy textbook for medical students. Gray's Anatomy has never since been out of print, but little was ...

6. Ebola! The evolving epidemic (51:56)

Date:
October 15, 2014
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
"Germs have always traveled. the problem now is they can travel with the speed of a jet plane." So said physician and medical historian Howard Markel in recent days, commenting on the spread of Ebo...

8. Empathy, an inquiry (1:00:53)

Date:
October 8, 2014
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
In this Medical center hour, prize-winning writer Leslie Jamison inquires into the phenomenon of empathy. It may be something more fraught then we often imagine it to be. Empathy isn't just an inst...

10. Healing in medicine, lessons from clinicians and patients (1:00:19)

Date:
September 10, 2014
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
At a time of sweeping transitions in health care, medical students and young physicians are eager for guidance as to how best to apply their knowledge and skills in caring for patients. In clinical...