1-2pm, Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Sally Warmington
The emphasis in modern medical schools on the teaching of communication skills reflects a widespread acknowledgement that effective communication is vital for good clinical practice. Yet despite this, many doctors still interact with patients in a detached manner which suggests a lack of care [...]
1-2pm, Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Anthony Williams.
This study examines a particular moment in the construction of disability within Australian higher education.
Please see seminar flyer for further information or call CHS on 83440813.
1-2pm, Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton.
Presented by Dr Anke Van Der Sterren , Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne
Please see seminar flyer for further information or call CHS on 83440813.
4-5pm, Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Dr Philomena Horsley
Dead bodies are in vogue. Dissected corpses litter our television screens and crime books. Yet in Western hospitals the autopsy is almost extinct, and opinions about the usefulness of the modern autopsy remain sharply divided. How can this be? Why has the autopsy [...]
When: 12.00 – 1.00pm, Thursday 8 October, 2009
Where: Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Theonie Tacticos, McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, and Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne
Australia, like other [...]
1pm
Room 405B, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by
Dr Meredith Nash, Centre for Health and Society
Feminist scholars have long argued that the significatory possibilities of women’s bodies/body images in Euro-America and Australia have been constrained by gendered cultural norms that value flat stomachs and slenderness. In this paper, I shall argue that a fixed referent, [...]
1.00 – 3.30pm, Thursday 27 August 2009
RACV Club Conference Centre, 501 Bourke St, Melbourne
Prof. Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham
1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 25 August, 2009
Basement Lecture Theatre, 221 Bouverie Street
Professor Elizabeth Waters, Jack Brockhoff Chair of Child Public Health, the McCaughey Centre
Professor Anthony Scott, Professorial Fellow, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Professor John Matthews, Professorial Fellow, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Dr Tania Bezzobs, Manager Research Development, Melbourne Research Office
Professor Janet [...]
1pm
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Shirley Lindenbaum, Professor Emerita of the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
The epidemic of kuru, a fatal disease that has long burdened the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, appears to be approaching an end. Since its peak in the late 1950s and early 1960s, [...]
Onemda and the Centre for Indigenous Education invite you to join us in celebrating NAIDOC week on Tuesday 7th July, from 12pm in the ‘Hub’, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton.
Please RSVP to Nicole Waddell on waddell@unimelb.edu.au or 83449337.
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