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1. (Un)healthy Appalachia? (1:00:47)

Date:
September 23, 2015
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Southern Appalachia often provides a folksy backstory to our national mythology—a tale of coal miners, moonshining, bluegrass, and ballads. But Appalachia is a real place that figures fundamentally...

2. A river runs again--seeking a healthier India (59:30)

Date:
September 30, 2015
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
In this Medical Center Hour, award-winning journalist Meera Subramanian explores the human and global health implications of India’s ravaged environmental landscape. Her new book, A River Runs Agai...

5. Couch meets scanner: the new science of neuropsychonalysis (56:23)

Date:
November 18, 2015
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Early in her own training in psychology a decade ago, Casey Schwartz discovered that contemporary neuroscience and psychoanalysis are entangled in a conflict almost as old as the disciplines themse...

6. Dissecting with a paintbrush: demonstrating not so "gross" anatomy (58:50)

Date:
October 14, 2015
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Danny Quirk is a young artist specializing in photorealistic watercolors, painting what the camera cannot capture. Much of his work illustrates the intricacies of human anatomy. On canvas, he paint...

7. Dying in America (1:01:02)

Date:
February 4, 2015
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Dying in America is very different now from half a century ago. Before World War II, death usually occurred at home, often with no medical intervention. But with the bioscientific and medical advan...

8. Gun violence and mental illness--Evidence? Solutions? (1:01:49)

Date:
October 7, 2015
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Columbine. Virginia Tech. Ft. Hood. Huntsville. Tucson. Aurora. Newtown. The Navy Yard. Charleston. Roseburg. Gun violence, including a relentless raft of mass shootings, is epidemic today in the U...

9. Here one day, a film about mental illness, suicide, and family (42:03)

Date:
February 18, 2015
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
When documentary filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she discovered a hidden box of audiotapes. Sixteen years passed before she had the courage t...