Virtual Panel Event

Wednesday, November 10, 6-7:15 pm (central)

 

Part of
Interdisciplinary Investigations Series
Medical Encounters
At the University of Southern Mississippi

 

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Panel:

Dr. Fuson Wang, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

Dr. Ian Dunkle, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, School of Humanities (Organizer)

Dr. Emily Stanback, Associate Professor of English, School of Humanities (Organizer)

 

This event will explore the rise of modern medicine as a critical context for understanding present-day medicine and the covid-19 pandemic. How can examining the development and reception of the smallpox vaccine offer us insight into vaccine hesitancy in 2021? How do medical figures like Georges Cuvier and James Marion Sims, events like the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, and medical patients like Henrietta Lacks help to contextualize race-based inequities related to covid-19? How does the history of medical professionalization relate to historical trends in folk or “alternative” medicine and medical skepticism, and how might that allow us to reflect differently on  current trends like medically unsanctioned  therapies for covid-19?

 

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