Ghosts from the past: the importance of the HPCSA's findings in the Wouter Basson case

The Steve Biko School of Bioethics, the South African Medical Association (Gauteng branch), the Wits Students Bioethics society and the Institute for Security Studies invite you to join us for a screening of a short film inspired by a recent visit to Roodeplaat Research Laboratories, where during apartheid scientists undertook animal experiments to, amongst other things, find toxins and chemicals that could be used to kill without leaving a trace, and where work was done to find an anti-fertility vaccine that could be administered to black women without their knowledge.

Khadija Patel and Neo Muyanga visit Duke

WiSER-Duke Writing Fellows Events in November 

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Living in the Land of Limbo

A review of Living in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving, edited by Carol Levine (Vanderbilt University Press, 2014).

Dangerous Girls

A blog post by Sarah Emily Duff for the Society of the History of Childhood and Youth, based on her recent article for the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.

Internal Appointment of Wits University research secondments

Monday, 1 December, 2014 - 11:30

In 2013 WiSER launched a Medical Humanities project in association with the Faculty of Humanities

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