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"Miss Evers' Boys" Screening

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 5:00 PM (CT)

San Antonio, TX

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Optional session, worth 2 extra credit points towards OBD: Practicing Clinical Ethics and Professionalism.

 

Miss Evers' Boys is a 1997 HBO television film starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment. It was directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted from the 1992 stage play written by David Feldshuh. The film was nominated for eleven Emmy Awards and won in four categories, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie. 

The film tells the story of the Tuskegee experiment, a U.S. Federal Government secret medical experiment on poor African Americans in the years 1932-1972, designed to study the effects of untreated syphilis. The story is told from the perspective of the small town nurse Eunice Evers (Alfre Woodard) who is well aware of the lack of treatment, but feels her role is to console the involved men, many of whom are her direct friends.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Evers'_Boys)

 

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Room 3.104A
7703 Floyd Curl Dr.
San Antonio, TX 78229

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 5:00 PM (CT)


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Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics



We strive to be a leading Center educating medical students and health professionals in ethics and professionalism while nurturing empathy and humanitarian values. We fulfill our mission by:

    • Preparing students to identify, analyze and resolve moral conflicts in patient care and medical research;

 

    • Deepening the attentiveness to patients that will persist throughout students' medical careers through exposure to excellent clinical role modeling, arts and letters; and

 

  • Developing a distinguished interdisciplinary community service learning program that focuses on ethics in action and serves as a bridge between ethics education and development of empathy and humanitarian values.

The Center focus on four key areas: Literature and Art, Medical Ethics and Professionalism, Community Service Learning and Global Health

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