Start Over Date 2018

21. Worst-case scenario: influenza and war! (1:01:16)

Date:
2018-09-12
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
The influenza pandemic of 1918 was the most powerful pandemic disease in human history, emerging out of the worst-case scenario of an airborne virus mutating to an extremely lethal form amid crowded conditions of military training camps and battlefields. This deadly influenza exploded from the Western Front of World War I to circle the globe and kill at least 50 million people worldwide within 18 months. To open UVA’s centennial commemoration of the 1918 pandemic, historian Carol Byerly highlights the U.S. Army’s experience with influenza at home and abroad in the context of the historic relation between disease and war. What can we learn from 1918 even as we anticipate and fear future pandemics? A History of the Health Sciences Lecture Co-presented with the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, School of Nursing; Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library; and Influenza! 1918-2018

22. Your heart is the size of your fist: a doctor reflects on ten years at a refugee clinic (59:21)

Date:
2018-09-19
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Martina Scholtens worked as a physician at Bridge Refugee Clinic in Vancouver for ten years, caring for patients from around the world. Her book about this work, Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist, is a creative nonfiction account of one Iraqi family’s first year in Canada from her perspective as their doctor. In this Medical Center Hour, Dr. Scholtens explores the physician writer’s obligation to patient, profession, and society and inquires into the legitimization of patient suffering, the concept of medical maternalism, and the challenges of advocacy. The Moore Lecture of the School of Medicine/Medical Grand Rounds Co-presented with the Generalist Scholars Program and the Department of Medicine, and offered in conjunction with Primary Care Week at UVA