| The
Common Threat
A
conversation about AIDS & Africa, Science and Religion
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In
America and the rest of the world, millions of people are
dying and millions more living with HIV/AIDS will die. In
this short documentary project, five Vanderbilt faculty
members respond to the crisis and discuss its scientific
and religious implications.
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Interviewer
and author
Volney
P.Gay
Professor and Chair, Religious Studies;
Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of Anthropology
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“The
events that happen in one country can affect another. We’re
all human, we’re all susceptible to this scourge and
the virus does not discriminate.”
Richard
T. D'Aquila
Addison B. Scoville Professor of Medicine,
Department of Infectious Disease |
“The
issue of having protected sex, which is clearly important
if you’re going to be sexually active, is an issue
we can’t deal with from a political point of view.”
George
C. Hill
Levi Watkins, Jr. Professor,
Associate Dean for Diversity in Medical Education
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“What
does that nation-state look like 5, 10, 15, 25 years from
now? If you’ve got sizeable segments of the populationwho
had to make their way in the world without parenting?”
Lucius
Outlaw, Jr.
Professor of Philosophy; Director,
African American Studies Program |
“We
have the most resources of anybody, anywhere, ever and with
that comes an absolute responsibility to tend to those that
don’t have it. To not lay blame, but to address the
problem.”
Gay
Welch
University Chaplain;
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
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“There
is no doubt in my mind, if the scourge of AIDS were to be
focused on white European countries the U.S. would be investing
far more of its resources to alleviate the problem.”
Michael
Shai Cherry
Mellon Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies |
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