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Dr. September Williams is a Black physician-author, bioethicist, and sometimes filmmaker. She WRITES and TALKS about : The power of narrative, written and on screen, to reflect and illuminate bioethical concerns. Her work is about medicine and science at the intersection of struggles for health equity, environmental justice and human rights. She also clarifies what bioethics is, how it became ‘a thing’ and how the discipline can be used to think about complex clinical problems related to the biosphere.
Examples of September’s Talks
1. What the heck is Bioethics anyway?
2. Can We Talk Bioethics & the CoVID19 Pandemic?
3. An Exercise in Empathy (Film)
4.The Eyebrow Raising Event: One Car Crosses a Bridge in 5 minutes—another in 50 — Is it a health disparity?
5. Wild Caught or Atlantic Farmed? The evolution of The United Nations Convention on Mercury.
6. What Women Do That Others Can’t.
7. Climate Change and Epidemic Environmental disease.
8. Where Mercury, Lead and Gold Meet Poverty, Racism and Class
9. The Multi-Family Unit Arc of Change
10. Causes Crossing Genres: Mixing fiction with nonfiction
11. Romance as a Genre of Social Change
12. Do Not (Attempt) to Resuscitate
13.. Should We Let Babies Starve? Bioethics and Breastfeeding
14. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking
15. Breast Feeding: Where Infant Mortality and Black Life Expectancy Meet
16.. RISKING LIFE AND LIMB: The killing of Environmental Protectors and Journalists
17. Minamata Disease: Severe Human Mercury Poisoing
18. Epilepsy in Chasing Mercury
19. Hollywood Classics and the Black List in Chasing Mercury
20. Bioethics Screen Reflections: Aristotole and How film works.
21. Chasing Mercury, Virgil and the Founding Myths of Rome.
22. Listen to the Music: The inner voice of fiction.
23. The Firebird: Where Powwow and Ballet Meet. (Dance in Chasing Mercury)
24. Grief is Cyclic: Death, Dying & Mourning in Chasing Mercury