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Dr. Ezelle Sanford III, History & Socilogy of Science Seminar

Sep 21, 2020 at |

For More Information:  https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/events/hss-workshop-ezelle-sanford-iii



"Counting Deaths: A Historical Look at Black Infant Mortality" Dr. Wangui Muigai, Penn Population Studies Center Colloquium

Sep 21, 2020 at |

For More Information and to Register:  https://www.pop.upenn.edu/event/counting-deaths-historical-look-black-in...…



Kenneth Pass- "Criminalmaking in a Health Crisis: Law, Politics, and Crime in the Biomedical Era of HIV"

May 7, 2020 at | Zoom (please email for link)



"Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery Project," Penn Bioethics Seminar

May 5, 2020 at | Penn Biomedical Research Building, Room 252

Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery Project,

Penn Bioethics seminar Abstract



Canceled: "Anatomy Education, Penn Medicine, and the Creation of a National Racial Science Pedagogy before the Civil War," Christopher Willoughby (Penn State University)

Apr 17, 2020 at - |

Abstract:

In this presentation, I explore how racial discussion evolved in Penn's anatomy curriculum through an analysis of textbooks by three Penn anatomy professors: Caspar Wistar (published in 1811…



Canceled: Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery Fellows' Mini-Symposium

Apr 16, 2020 at - |



Cancelled: "Misogynoir in Mining and Medicine," Moya Bailey (Northeastern University)

Apr 2, 2020 at - |

Abstract:

In an October 2018 article in The Guardian, Harvard lecturer Siddharth Kara describes the back-breaking work of searching for cobalt by 15-year-old Elodie, who is exposed to toxic dust in the…



Cancelled: Ezelle Sanford III, "Segregated Medicine: The Story of Homer G. Phillips Hospital," History & Sociology of Science Workshop

Mar 23, 2020 at | Claudia Cohen Hall, Room 337

Ezelle Sanford III will present his research to the Penn History and Sociology of Science Workshop. For more information, see https://hss.…



CANCELLED: "Race and the Science of Remembering: Collecting, Preservation, and History in US Museums," Samuel Redman (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Mar 19, 2020 at - |

 

Abstract:

In 1897, the U.S. Army Medical Museum transferred 3,761 sets of human remains to the Smithsonian Institution. The vast majority of the skeletons were those of…



Owen J. Roberts Lecture, "Abolition Constitutionalism," Dorothy Roberts

Mar 3, 2020 at | Fitts Auditorium, Penn Law School

Dorothy Roberts will deliver the 2020 Owen J. Roberts Lecture at Penn Law School. Her subject will be "Abolition Constitutionalism."  

You can find more information and register…