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October 23-27, 2006 is attached.<br><br>
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<b>Please join us on Monday, October 23, for the 2006 Arthur Miller
Lecture on Science and Ethics:<br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5 color="#0000FF">Human
Rights, Ethics and the Global Response to the AIDS Pandemic: Why We Can't
Wait<br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>Our speaker will be Jim
Yong Kim, François Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights,
Harvard School of Public Health; Professor of Social Medicine and
Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Social
Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Director,
François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; and Chair,
Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. <br><br>
</b></font>Dr. Kim, an expert in tuberculosis, has 20 years of experience
in improving health in developing countries. He is a founding
trustee and the former executive director of Partners In Health, a
not-for-profit organization that supports a range of health programs in
poor communities in Haiti, Lesotho, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, and the United
States. Dr. Kim trained dually as a physician and medical anthropologist.
He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Kim returned
to Harvard in December 2005 after a three-year leave of absence serving
first as advisor to the director-general of the World Health Organization
(WHO), and then as director of WHO's HIV/AIDS department. Dr. Kim
oversaw all of WHO's work related to HIV/AIDS, focusing on initiatives to
help developing countries scale up their treatment, prevention, and care
programs, including the "3x5" initiative designed to put three
million people in developing countries on AIDS treatment by the end of
2005.<br><br>
Abstract:<br>
Worldwide attention and resources are focused as never before on saving
the lives of millions of people with AIDS. Yet we are still losing
the battle against the epidemic. Even as we face enormous
challenges in scaling-up treatment and prevention of HIV in developing
countries, controversies persist over whether the speed of our response
is leading to unintended but serious human rights violations. Dr.
Kim will discuss these challenges and, with so many lives at stake, the
urgent need for innovative and ethical<br>
responses to one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. <br><br>
The lecture will be held at 4:00 p.m. in MIT's Bartos Theater.
Please join us for a reception immediately following the lecture and
discussion.<br><br>
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<pre><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>Please see the attached
schedule for information about the next meeting of the "Complexity
and Emergence" Seminar at Harvard. There are
two readings in connection with this presentation:
1) Israel, G. 2005. 'The Science of Complexity: Epistemological Problems
and Perspectives'. Science in Context, 18 (3), 479-509 (attached
herewith)
2) Horgan, J. 1995. 'From Complexity to Perplexity'. Scientific American,
272, 104-110
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