Date/Time
Thursday - Friday
7 Sep - 8 Sep 2017
Event Type
Conference
Thursday, September 7: Townsend Center Geballe Room, Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
6:30–7pm Hors d’oeuvres
7–8:30pm Readers’ theater presentation of “Brute” by American surgeon and author Richard Selzer (1928-2016).
Moderator: Martha Stoddard Holmes, Professor, Literature and Writing Studies, CSU San Marcos.
Friday, September 8: Room 470 Stephens Hall
8:30am Continental Breakfast
9-10:45 Session 1 – On Language
Moderator: Marilyn McEntyre, PhD, Adjunct Professor in the Medical Humanities, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
“The common use of words of violence in medicine: Is there a better alternative?” Kathleen Powers, PhD Candidate in Rhetoric, UCB
“Violent Language in Global Health” Yuyang John Mei, MD, Resident physician, Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
“Violence in Medicine” Johanna Shapiro, PhD, Director, Program in Medical Humanities and Arts, Family Medicine, UC Irvine School of Medicine.
10:45–11 Coffee Break
11–12:30 Session 2 – On violence as psychiatric, neurologic, or social problem
Moderator: Thomas Blair, MD, MPH
“Sociopathy and Criminal Justice: A Study in Non-Medicalization” Thomas Blair, MD, MS, Kaiser Permanent and UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
“Mental Illness and Solitary Confinement: Natural Bedfellows” Keramet Reiter, JD, PhD, UC Irvine Dept. of Criminology, Law & Society
“A Philosopher looks at Free Will and Violence” John Perry, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
12:30-1:15 Lunch Break
1:15-3pm Session 3 – On The Medical Response to Violence
Moderator: Robyn Thomas, JD, Executive Director, Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
“What is the appropriate response to violence from Medicine, Public Health, and Healthcare Professionals?” Gary Slutkin, MD, Professor of Epidemiology and International Health, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, and Founder and Executive Director of “Cure Violence” <http://cureviolence.org>
Seth Holmes, PhD, MD, Associate Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology, UCB
3-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15–5:00 Session 4 – On Cutting to Cure
Moderator: Guy Micco, MD, Clinical Professor Emeritus, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program, Co-director UCB Program for the Medical Humanities
“A Surgeon’s Perspective on an Inherently Violent Act” Marc Pollock, MD, MPH, former pediatric heart surgeon, UC Davis School of Medicine
“Cutting and Meaning” Meir Dan-Cohen, LLM, JSD, Milo Reese Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley Law
“Cutting to Learn, Learning to Cut: violence, vivisection and the origins of medical knowledge” Thomas Laqueur, PhD, Professor of History, UCB, Co-director UCB Program for the Medical Humanities
5-5:30pm Summary and Close
Medicine and Violence Conference Presenters
Thomas Blair, MD, MS, Associate Physician in Psychiatry, Kaiser-Permanente of Southern California, and Clinical Instructor, Psychiatry, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
Meir Dan-Cohen, LLM, JSD, Milo Reese Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley Law
Martha Stoddard Holmes, PhD, Professor of Literature and Writing Studies, CSU San Marcos
Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD, Associate Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology, UCB School of Public Health.
Thomas W. Laqueur, PhD, Helen Fawcett Professor of History, UCB, Co-director UCB Program for the Medical Humanities
Marilyn McEntyre, PhD, Adjunct Professor in Medical Humanities, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program.
Yuyang John Mei, MD, Resident physician, Family and Community Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine.
Guy Micco, MD, Clinical Professor Emeritus, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program, Co-director UCB Program for the Medical Humanities
John Perry, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Stanford University
Marc Pollock, MD, MPH, former pediatric heart surgeon, UC Davis School of Medicine
Kathleen A. Powers, PhD Candidate in Rhetoric, Philosophy of Science, UCB
Keramet Reiter, JD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine
Johanna Shaprio, PhD, Director, Program in Medical Humanities and Arts, Family Medicine, UC Irvine School of Medicine
Gary Slutkin, MD, Professor of Epidemiology and International Health, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health; Founder and Executive Director of “Cure Violence”
Robyn Thomas, JD, Executive Director, Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
This event is sponsored by the UCB Program for the Medical Humanities.
Additional sponsorship comes from: CSTMS, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, and the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program.
Additional sponsorship comes from: Program for the Medical Humanities