I'm kind of shocked that I am only finding out about this conference, entitled "MAKING HEALTH, MAKING RACE: HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO RACE, MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH," 10 days before it begins, especially since it's in Austin, is on a topic near and dear to me, and features so many of the leading scholars, but here you go:
Questions about the shared quality of life and the distribution of health care are part of our shared historical experience. Across the Americas, medicine is an important economic sector, and access to health care is also a key dimension of both citizenship and exclusion. Medical historians have explored the ways public health and medicine have shaped the ideologies and institutions that shape racial inequality, the experience of slavery and freedom, as well as the minimum conditions for citizenship and personal dignity. Historians and scholars in African American Studies, Latino Studies and Gender Studies have explored the ways men and women in communities of color have shaped and challenged the institutions of public health and medicine.
Given the growth of shared thematic interests across these various disciplinary fields and geographic areas, this is one of the few conferences where scholars interested in the intersection of race and the social history of medicine can interact with scholars with similar research interests who work on places outside the United States. Making Race, Making Health will help establish a face-to-face moment in the establishment of cross-hemispheric research network in the history of medicine.
The program is here, and features a number explorations of these crucial issues. Abstracts are available here, and here is a list of participants, which is basically a who's who of historians at the forefront of issues related to race, medicine, and history.
Highly recommended.
(h/t H-SCI-MED-TECH listserv)
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