Start Over Date 2019 Language English

24. Oral History Interview with Edward Hogshire (57:03)

Date:
2019-02-28
Main contributors:
Hogshire, Edward
Summary:
Oral history interview with Edward Hogshire, class of 1970. Hogshire discusses the events surrounding the UVA student strike in May 1970 against the Vietnam War, and his participation in the events as a legal marshal.

27. Sugar! (1:02:48)

Date:
2019-03-06
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Why do modern Americans eat so much sugar, and to what effect? This Medical Center Hour offers dual perspectives on the sweet stuff, what it does to/in us, and its many meanings in history and for health. UVA historian David Singerman and UVA physician Jennifer Kirby examine sugar’s impact on the body—past and present, historically, socially, physiologically, and nutritionally.

28. When addiction strikes a family: writing for recovery (59:46)

Date:
2019-02-13
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Amid the current opioid epidemic in the U.S., discourse around addicts and addiction can be overwhelmingly negative, pessimistic, and hopeless, reinforcing negative stereotypes. Even in health care, negativity about addiction prevails, making it more challenging for clinicians and organizations to respond with appropriate care, services, and resources. The toll of addiction is staggering. But while statistical and fiscal analyses of the national epidemic can also overwhelm and add to the negativity, might we gain a different view of addiction by accessing the particular experience of it, as it affects individuals and also their families? To know better what is at stake and how to foster recovery, this Medical Center Hour turns to poets Kate Daniels and Owen Lewis for their response to addiction when it strikes close to heart and home. How can writing serve to access the lived experience of addiction—in this case, addiction inside the family circle—and how might writing aid in recovery, for everyone involved?

29. Women changed by cancer: the Whistle Words project (53:22)

Date:
2019-01-30
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Whistle Words is a multimedia project helping women reclaim their sense of self after a life-changing cancer diagnosis--with the simple aid of a pen. Charlottesville-based Whistle Words offers writing workshops for women in and after cancer treatment. Being part of this project as an adjunct or follow-up to treatment can make a real difference in participants' outlook and healing, as demonstrated by women's writings in the recently published anthology, Truth: Voices of Women Changed by Cancer. In this Medical Center Hour, Whistle Words' co-founder Charlotte Matthews and UVA nurse/breast cancer survivor/workshop participant Susan Goins-Eplee introduce Whistle Words and explore the healing power of writing. A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture