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Affliction: A Special Screening Event with Doctors Without Borders
Ebola Survivor Corps, Doctors Without Borders-Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the UWSMPH Infectious Disease Interest Group and WUD Film present Affliction, a powerful MSF documentary about the devastating effects of the 2014 Ebola epidemic from West Africa to Madison. Shot in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Affliction provides an intimate look at the impact of the Ebola outbreak on the…
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Journalism, Ethics & The Battle Over Health Care
Sponsored by the Center for Journalism Ethics. Three experts will join faculty, staff and students with an interest in health policy or communication at the Overture Center: •Sarah Kliff, health policy journalist at Vox •David Wahlberg, health and medicine reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal •J. Paul Kelleher, assistant professor of bioethics at UW-Madison RSVP…
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Professor Wins Award for Research on Genocide
Professor Wins Award for Research on Genocide
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New Certificate Brings Humanities Into Health Care Studies
New Certificate Brings Humanities Into Health Care Studies
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Africa at Noon: Preparer la Retraite — New Age-Scripts in West African Middle Class
Because age is a central principle of social organization, aging trajectories — in their temporality, social meaning and roles — are highly sensitive to social change. This change is influenced by economic and societal changes, and by interrelated processes of changing norms. However, in between relatively stable norms and changing practices we see a concept…