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You are invited to participate in the next Medical Center Hour, "Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age" on Wednesday, Oct. 20, from noon-1 p.m.

After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the “Little Boy” bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in September 1945.

Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan’s instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity.                                                                                                

Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Wednesday, Oct. 20
noon-1 p.m.
Zoom
Speaker: James L. Nolan, Jr., Chair and Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology; Justin B. Mutter, MD, MSc, moderator. This History of the Health Sciences Lecture is co-presented with Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at UVA.

Medical Center Hour is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, see Center for Health Humanities and Ethics.

Watch Medical Center Hour recordings here.

Rebecca Etz, PhD, and Caroline Lebegue declared no personal/professional relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services related to this presentation. Medical Center Hour planning group members M.D. Childress PhD; R.J. Bonnie LLB; R. Carpenter DrNP; J.F. Childress PhD; M.F. Marshall PhD; J. Mutter MD MA; K. Reid PhD RN FNP-C CNL; L. Shepherd JD have no personal/professional relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services, while R. Dillingham MD MPH reports interests with Gilead and Warm Health Technology Inc. UVA Office of Continuing Medical Education faculty and staff have no personal/professional financial relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services.

How to Claim Continuing Education (CE) Credit for Medical Center Hour:

Using the Google Chrome or Firefox browser on a phone, tablet, or computer, go to https://cmetracker.net/UVA and log into your CE account with your email and password. Choose ‘CE Certificate-Eval for Credit,' enter Activity Code 141875 then complete and submit your evaluation. You have 30 days from this program date (29 September 2021) to evaluate and obtain credit for this program. This is the only way you can receive credit for this Medical Center Hour.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Virginia (UAV) School of Medicine/School of Nursing is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. UVA School of Medicine/School of Nursing designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.^TM  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. UVA School of Medicine/School of Nursing awards 1contact hour for nurses who participate in this educational activity and complete the post-activity evaluation.UVA School of Medicine/School of Nursing awards 1 hour of participation (consistent with the designated number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM  or ANCC contact hours) to a participant who successfully completes this educational activity. UVA School of Medicine/School of Nursing maintains a record of participation for six years.