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SUMMARY:Elderhood Author Louise Aronson in Conversation with Sharon Kaufman | ARCHIVES TALK
DESCRIPTION:VIDEO RECORDING\n\nElderhood: Redefining Aging\, Transforming 
 Medicine\, Reimagining Life\n\nHealthcare and medical training primarily 
 recognize two age groups: children and adults. In real life\, there are 
 three\, and most of us will spend years or decades longer in elderhood than 
 in childhood. In her New York Times bestselling new book\, UCSF Professor 
 Louise Aronson shows how individuals\, communities\, clinicians and 
 scientists can improve lives and transform healthcare by applying the same 
 creativity\, innovation\, and effort to elders as we already do for 
 children and adults. Join us for a lively conversation and the fall launch 
 of UCSF’s answer to City Arts & Lectures and The Commonwealth 
 Club!\n\nPresenter: Louise Aronson MD\, MFA\, Professor\, UCSF Division of 
 Geriatrics\, Director\, UCSF Health Humanities\n\nIn conversation with 
 Sharon Kaufman PhD\, Professor Emerita\, Dept. of Anthropology\, History 
 and Social Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. 
 \n\nSpeakers:\n\nSharon Kaufman PhD\, is Professor Emerita\, Medical 
 Anthropology at UCSF. Her work explores topics at the intersection of 
 aging\, medical knowledge and society’s expectations for health. She has 
 examined the changing culture and structure of US medicine and health care 
 delivery at the end of life. She is the author of …And a Time to Die: How 
 American Hospitals Shape the End of Life\, and Ordinary Medicine: 
 Extraordinary Treatments\, Longer Lives and Where to Draw the Line. \n\n 
 \n\n \n\nLouise Aronson is a geriatrician\, writer\, educator\, and 
 professor of medicine at the University of California\, San Francisco 
 (UCSF) where she directs UCSF Health Humanities. A graduate of Harvard 
 Medical School and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers\, Dr. Aronson has 
 received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine\, the California 
 Homecare Physician of the Year award\, and the American Geriatrics Society 
 Clinician-Teacher of the Year award. She is the author of Elderhood: 
 Redefining Aging\, Transforming Medicine\, and Reimagining Life as well as 
 a short story collection\, A History of the Present Illness. Her writing 
 can be found in diverse publications including The New York Times\, 
 Discover Magazine\, the Lancet\, and the New England Journal of Medicine 
 and has earned her a MacDowell fellowship\, the Sonora Review Prize\, and 
 four Pushcart nominations.\n\n \n\n\nThis event is brought to you by the 
 UCSF Library Archives & Special Collections\, the Department of 
 Anthropology\, History and Social Medicine and UCSF Health Humanities. 
 \n\nArchives Talks are free and open to the public. Light refreshments 
 provided while supply lasts.
LOCATION:Lange Room - 5th Floor\, Parnassus
ORGANIZER;CN="UCSF Archives Special Collections":MAILTO:libraryarchives@ucsf.edu
CATEGORIES:Archives and Special Collections
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