Have you been zombified by sex and/or tech? Hear from the amazing interdisciplinary speakers, be a part of art-science streaming, experience zombie films with commentary from expert brains, and more at the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting, Oct 15-18, 2020. All from the comfort of wherever you are riding out the apocalypse.
THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE MEDICINE MEETING
Oct 15-18, 2020
The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technologies-human-corpse
The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today.
Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.
In the words of guest Mark Van Linden, “adversity can present itself to anybody at any time.” This episode features a personal narrative of life with a spinal cord injury. Dr. Karen Kelly-Blake, Associate Professor in the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences and the Department of Medicine at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, is joined by Mark Van Linden, MSA, and president of Adversity Solutions LLC. Mr. Van Linden experienced a spinal cord injury in 2009.
April 14, 2020 , 12:00 PM
Lectures and Panels
Harvard Law School
What would you do if you needed surgery, but seeking care would mean $25,000 or more in medical debt? Would you consider traveling to another country to receive the same surgery at a fraction of that cost? Would you put off seeking care entirely, until it became an emergency situation?
This episode features guests Dr. Karen Kelly-Blake, Associate Professor in the Michigan State University Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, and Dr. Masahito Jimbo, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at University of Michigan Medical School. Drs.
Bioethics 34, no. 1 (January 2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678519/2020/34/1
The topic of this special issue is human germline editing.
What can neuroscience tell us about human consciousness, the developing brains of babies, or lab-grown brain-like tissue? How do we define “consciousness” when it is a complex, much-debated topic? In this episode, Michigan State University researchers Dr. Laura Cabrera, Assistant Professor in the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, and Dr.
