Under Our Skin: There's No Medicine for Someone Like You

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Documentary Film
 
30 Jan 2010
 
10:00 AM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Under Our Skin exposes the hidden story of Lyme disease. It looks not only at the science and politics of the disease but also at the personal stories of those who have been affected, from doctors who risk their medical licenses to patients who once led active lives but now can barely walk. While exposing a broken health care and medical research system, the film also gives voice to those who believe that instead of a crisis, Lyme is simply a "disease du jour," over diagnosed and contributing to another crisis: the looming resistance of microbes and ineffectuality of antibiotics. Under Our Skin was produced and directed by Andy Abrahams Wilson and won Best Documentary Award at the Camden International Film Festival. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.

[url=http://www.underourskin.com/]www.underourskin.com/[/url] Andy Abrahams Wilson, Producer/Director/Cinematographer, studied journalism and anthropology at Northwestern University and received an MA from USC in visual anthropology and film. Heis an Emmy-nominated producer and director of creative nonfiction films. [b]View the complete schedule of symposium events:[/b] [url= http://engl.iastate.edu/programs/creative_writing/mfa/visiting-writers-series/wildness2010.html]Things Fall Apart: Finding Beauty in a Broken World[/url] ---- This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.