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will rourk, wmr5a@virginia.edu, ORCID : 0000-0001-8622-5080
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Flythrough animation of 3D data collected on site at the Cabell Log House located in the Gospel Hill historic district of Staunton, Va, on 2024-03-21; in collaboration with the Historic Staunton Foundation (https://www.historicstaunton.org/) who own and manage this site; data collected with FARO Focus 3D lasers scanners, models X130, S70, S150; data processed with FARO Scene v. 2023.0.1;
A diverse population of caregivers working in clients' homes constitutes a vital link in our health care “system,” their services filling a gap between institutional care and what families are able to manage on their own. Who are these caregivers, what is their work, and what does their work mean—to them, to the clients and families they serve, to our larger society? Prompted by the recent documentary film, CARE, by Deirdre Fishel, which profiles five caregivers and their elderly clients, this Medical Center Hour inquires into the nature and lived experience of home-based caregiving for elders. What role will such home care play as our society ages and people seek to stay at home with complex, care-intensive medical conditions? How can we better value and compensate care workers and better support families who need their services? What about the sustainability of the home health caregiving economy and its workforce?
A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Co-presented with the Department of Chaplaincy Services, UVA Health System
Carl Poole was born in Germany in 1975 where his mother was stationed with the U.S. Army, and spent most of his childhood in Virginia before returning again as an adult. Poole’s great-aunt, aunt, and cousins grew up in Lambert’s Point in Norfolk, and he recalls seeing coal dust on the exterior of their houses as a child. Poole began working for the New Virginia Majority in 2022 on environmental justice advocacy.
Track 1: In this June 2023 testimony, Poole reflects on his year working at the Wastewater Treatment Plant, 15 yards away from the Norfolk Southern Coal Yard in Lambert’s Point, and the impact the dust had on him on a daily basis. This testimony includes descriptions of his cousins’ experiences with bronchitis. He also mentions how residents of Lambert’s Point were displaced through eminent domain when the city of Norfolk built a water reservoir, and how the community has been neglected in city services, including street cleaning. Poole describes gentrification caused by Old Dominion University, and reflects upon how residents in the area have not felt heard on issues of environmental hazards or housing justice.
Track 2: This oral history traces Poole’s family history, including his grandmother’s experience raising seven children in Norfolk’s public housing, many of whom went on to attend college and start businesses in the area. Poole discusses the white-led campaigns resisting integration in Norfolk public schools in the 1950s and 60s, as well as the impact busing had on the Black community. Poole reflects on his middle school years in a majority-white community in Indiana, and his experience returning to Hampton Roads to join the Army in 1994. The interview includes discussions of the Obama presidency, the Trump election, his organizing work in 2020, and his goals for Black civic involvement in Norfolk.
Neurologist Oliver Sacks (1933-2016) was a legend in his own time—as a physician but also as a writer whose work probed medicine, science, and the arts and as a tireless explorer of both the natural world and the human condition. His clinical tales, published in the medical literature and mass media alike, found a wide audience across medicine and society. Behind these tales, which stretched the case history to illuminate and celebrate the person who was marked, and often rendered remarkable, by neuropsychological illness, flared Sacks's own curiosity, an insatiable urge to question and a generous capacity for paying meticulous attention.
In this inaugural Hook Lecture in Medicine and the Arts, writer and photographer Bill Hayes, who was Sacks's late-life partner, offers insights into Oliver Sacks as a person and a physician whose creative nature and prodigious output enriched medicine and culture across a long and productive life. A writer and photographic artist in his own right, Hayes addresses the place of curiosity and creativity in Sacks's practice and his own, especially how, for both, interest in and radical openness to a fellow human being are paramount.
The Edward W. Hook Lecture in Medicine and the Arts / Medical Grand Rounds
Co-presented with the Department of Medicine, with which the Medical Center Hour shares a fund established by the late Edward W. Hook MD MACP whereby the arts can generously enrich medical education and training.
Cassandra Newby-Alexander is a luminary historian of Black culture in the Tidewater area of Virginia, and Dean of the HBCU Norfolk State University, beginning in 2018. Chinedu Okala is a celebrated artist and Associate Dean of NSU at the time of this interview. Newby-Alexander discusses her experiences from childhood to adulthood with flooding in the city, illustrating her experiences with historical context around the City’s restriction Black residents’ housing. Okala discusses the history of race in the US and the current political climate.
Catherine Gillespie and Andre Hakes are a married lesbian couple who live in Charlottesville. In their interview, they discuss the process of adopting their child and their protracted fight for custody in the legal system. They were the first couple to get married in Charlottesville when it became legal in 2014, and their marriage followed years of activism around marriage that they describe. They also share their experiences of queer community in Charlottesville and discuss gender presentation and transgender issues today.