By Nicole Milano on February 14, 2023 - 4:00pm
Health Activism and Community Control: American Medicine in the 1960s and 1970s
Join Dr. Naomi Rogers are she delves into the challenging and important topic of relations between the community and medical profession, focusing on the 1960s and 1970s. This was a time when health activists (including many medical students) sought to transform the values and structures of hospitals and clinics to make them responsive to local needs and to deliver health care that provided poor patients, especially patients of color, with a sense of respect and dignity. Dr. Rogers will consider the legacy of these struggles in ongoing contemporary efforts by hospitals and other medical institutions to improve community relations in ways that reflect health justice and seek to prevent health inequities.
Dr. Rogers is a Professor of the History of Medicine in the Section of the History of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and the Program in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. She studies 20th and 21st century history of medicine, health inequities, and social justice, and has publisshed in medical, public health, and history journals, and has been a keynote speaker in the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Rogers wrote three historical monographs and is completing a fourth (Health Radicalism and the Humanization of American Medicine), which examines critics of medicine sincce 1945 including civil rights, consumer, and feminist activists.
The recording for this event is available here.
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