Lunch & Learn – 2023 Archive
November 9, 2023
Doctors Without Borders
A conversation with Dr. Peter Redfield
Dr. Peter Redfield is Professor of Anthropology and Erburu Chair in Ethics, Globalization and Development at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders (University of California Press 2013) and Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (University of California Press 2000).
Event Recording
April 20, 2023
Torments of a Terrifying Gland: How Medical Humanities Can Improve Prostate Care
A conversation with Dr. Ericka Johnson
Professor of Gender and Society, Linköping University, Sweden
The author of A Cultural Biography of the Prostate (MIT, 2021), Dr. Ericka Johnson’s interdisciplinary research combines the best of social studies of science, medical sociology, and feminist science studies. Her latest work examines medical technologies and the multiple ways in which artifacts express and highlight the cultural values that shape our lives.
Event Recording
February 20, 2023
Transition to Parenthood as a Window for Biopsychosocial Health in Adulthood
A conversation with Dr. Darby Saxbe
Dr. Saxbe has devoted the past decade to studying how the journey into parenthood affects health and relationships for both parents and their children. In this talk, she will present some of her recent studies on parenting – with a focus on fathers – and how new parents undergo changes to their physical and mental health. She will highlight new research on the fathering brain, showing the brain structure changes in men followed from the prenatal into the postpartum period, and that these structural changes are associated with hormones and adjustment to parenthood. She will also emphasize the importance of this program of research for clinical intervention and public policy.