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CLAHS Research Forum on Health, Race, and Rhetoric
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CLAHS Research Forum on Health, Race, and Rhetoric
February 11, 2013
Morning sessions: GLC Room B
9:15-10:45 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health
Chair, Tom Ewing
Presenters:
Monica Motley, Balanced Living with Diabetes: Lessons Learned from a Collaborative Evidence-Based Diabetes Education Program
Patrick Thayer, A Composite Fiber/Hydrogel Scaffold for Ligament Tissue Engineering
Lyusyena Kirakosyan, Impairment or Disability? Implications of These Concepts for Social Policy
Discussants: Ashley Shew Heflin and William Huckle
11:00-12:15 Vaccinations and Rhetoric in Historical Context
Chair, Tom Ewing
Vaccination Research Group: Philip Hayek, Mecal Ghebremichael, Erin Mack, Vaccination in the News, 1915-1922
Discussant: Stephen Knadler
1:30-3:00: Keynote address, Keynote address: GLC Room F
Stephen Knadler, Sanitary Citizenships: Public Health Rhetoric within Racial Uplift from Booker T. Washington to Michelle Obama
Introduction by Tom Ewing
Please direct questions to Tom Ewing (etewing@vt.edu)
Sponsored by CLAHS, the Women and Minority Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, Multicultural Program and Services, and the Graduate School Office of Recruitment and Diversity Initiatives. The forum is rescheduled from October 2012.
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