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August 2008
A new course entitled Cancer & Society will be offered during the fall semester at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. This seminar course will examine what has been learned about the origin, treatment, survivorship, and death from cancer. Beginning with President Nixon’s declaration of the “War on Cancer” in 1971, cancer has emerged from the shadows and become a focus of the American people. No longer is this still-dreaded disease a topic forbidden for public discussion.
The instructor’s for the course are Blake Whitaker, PhD. and Sallie Nealand, EdD. Whitaker's area of expertise is cellular biology and infectious diseases. His research focus is on the genetic effects of pollution and on the immunophysiology of reproduction. Nealand is a retired USM professor of nursing who has worked as a community nurse in Pennsylvania, and has taught at the University of Delaware, Neumann College in Aston PA, as well as the University of Southern Maine.
“This seminar course will examine what we have learned about the origin, treatment, survivorship, and death from cancer”, says Whitaker. “Our goal for the class is to build knowledge about this disease from a rudimentary beginning to as advanced a level as the participants choose to venture.”
The course (SCI 359) will meet Tuesdays, 1:00 - 3:30 p.m., beginning September 2, 2008. Registration is open through the first class meeting. The course has no prerequisites. For more information or to register, please call 753-6500. The complete fall semester USM LAC course schedule is online at www.usm.maine.edu/lac/schedules.
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