Medicine Race and Democracy Speaker Series
Stay tuned for updates about conversations with
Dr. Sean Morey Smith on his edited collection of essays entitled, Medicine and Healing in The Age of Slavery
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“…connection between race medicine that’s interesting to explore. And it really, I think, reveals the degree to which race is a category that is used because it is useful to accomplish different things…it’s something you can pick up and use in a lot of different ways. But then people also conveniently forget about it when it doesn’t make the point they wanted to make.”
Dr. Travis Chi Wing Lau on his scholarship and activism and upcoming manuscript, Insecure Immunity: Inoculation and Anti-Vaccination in Britain, 1720-1898
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“I want to underscore this, that just because we move remote does not mean it’s necessarily more accessible for students, even disabled students. And I think one of the urgent things is that we need to avoid this either-or model where either it’s all remote, or it’s all in person, I think what we what we need to do is think about ways we can facilitate both in the classroom, make both options available, or at least understand that there is no one size fits all model.”
Sasha Sumling on her labor as a doula in Houston and activism amplifying issues of Black women’s maternal morbidity.
