Alzheimer’s and its effects on families is the subject of “away with Her,” one of the best movies of 2007. Watch it with lit crits and medical professionals.
A stroke leaves a man with the ability to move no more than his left eye. What kind of a story can he tell? With a brilliant and innovative film director, pretty good.
The physician interface with the pharmaceutical industry stands at the forefront of a debate about the effect this relationship has on the behavior of both researchers and clinicians. This conflict of interest can affect physician judgment and behavior, leading to negative consequences for patients and threatening the professional status that society accords physicians. In view of the potential for ethical compromise, Dr Carey Chishom argues physicians should refrain from contact with pharmaceutical marketing representatives. Find out what this strange world might look like.
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No one knows about the importance of teamwork better than nurses … and these days they often feel as though their team is asking more while abandoning their interests. We all should be able to learn something the country’s foremost -nurse journalist.
What are better objective ways of measuring the quality of a health care system? How can we better understand the facts about aspects of health care reform on the health care system? How do we gain better insight in the ways in which we could reform our health care system to improve access, quality, or cost? Important questions, expect some serious answers.
Not just a top “chick flick,” the film version of Michael Ondaatje’s novel “The English Patient” provides many useful lessons about what the relation between story-telling and medicine should — and shouldn’t — be. Watch and discuss it with doctors, med students, filmmakers, and others.
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Individual and cultural expectations about our sexuality and sexual decision-making can help or hinder healthy sexual expression. What boundaries affirm and anchor? What boundaries restrict and confine? Join Dr. Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology at the University of Washington (Seattle) and former sex columnist for Glamour magazine, in a provocative and playful exploration of how our culture, race, gender, spiritual beliefs, orientation, and life experiences influence our sexual imagination and creativity.
Experience a critical discussion of the challenges and achievements of urban renewal and social change in major American cities. A bipartisan panel of leaders, each with a demonstrated commitment to effective leadership and public service, will individually address current issues, strategies and solutions within their respective communities.
Let’s hope that the 2008 election goes more smoothly than the 2000 election, and the ACLU has only a civic rather than professional interest in the outcome. This will be your first chance to hear from the area’s top experts why things went down as they did.
NUVO gives Provocate 2007 Cultural Vision Award
Provocate featured in Indianapolis Monthly
"Award combines film, activism: Festival to recognize social justice of Sept. 11, Congo in discussions,"
Indiana Lawyer April 16, 2008 ... on Provocate's Eric Parker Social Justice Award at the Indianapolis International Film Festival
