The Menace to Immigrants
Dr. Beatrix Hoffman will push against the stereotype that immigrants are carriers of sickness, focusing instead of how the health of immigrants is harmed after they arrive in the United States. In addition to sharing historical examples of how workplace and immigration policies are a menace to the health of people who immigrate, she will demonstrate that far from threatening public health, immigrants have made significant contributions to improving health and health care in the United States.
Beatrix Hoffman is a historian of the United States health care system and Board of Trustees Professor at Northern Illinois University. Her new book, Borders of Care: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Health Care in the United States, will be published in January 2025 by the University of Chicago Press. She is also the author of Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). Her research on the history of health care rights has also received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
The Heberden Society is free and open to all. This is a hybrid lecture co-sponsored with the David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium- onsite attendance is available in the Weill Greenberg Center (1305 York Avenue), 2nd Floor, Rooms B&C. A lunch buffet will be available. Remote attendance is available here (passcode 844704.)
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