Archive for the ‘cancer’ Category

November 19 — Masha Gessen on Blood Matters … From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

What would you do if genetic testing revealed that you were predisposed to breast cancer? As journalist Masha Gessen struggled with this question, she explored the landscape of this brave new world, speaking with others like her and with experts including medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers.


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September 19 — Smart Power: Pursuing a Global Development Agenda to Thwart Health Pandemics and Extreme Poverty

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

If the world’s global public health threats are going to be addressed seriously, the United States will have to take the lead. But does that mean the government in DC or American citizens … or both? (more…)

Posted in Events, Foreign policy, Women, Crossing borders, Environment, Human and civil rights, Health & Medicine, Technology, Science, China, Business, Education, Globalization, Africa, Poverty, HIV/AIDS, Philanthropy, Citizen Diplomacy, Families and children, Inter-cultural communication, Kenya, cancer | No Comments »

December 3 — Transform your view of science’s past and future with folk historian Adrienne Mayor

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Adrienne Mayor is an independent scholar who investigates scientific realities embedded in myth and classical antiquity. (more…)

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