Event Detail (Archived)
Manhattan’s Masters of Health: Racial Science in New York City’s Medical Schools, 1767–1861
- This event already took place in September 2023
- Webinar
Event Details
- Type
- Other Tri-Institutional Events
- Speaker(s)
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Christopher Willoughby, Ph.D., assistant professor, African American and African diaspora studies program, department of interdisciplinary, gender, and ethnic studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Speaker bio(s)
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Christopher Willoughby is a historian of medicine and slavery in the United States. He wrote Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2022. Alongside Sean Morey Smith, he edited the volume Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery in 2021. Willoughby teaches African American and African Diaspora Studies in the Interdiscplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
- Open to
- Public
- Host
- Weill Cornell Medicine Heberden Society
- Contact
- Nicole Milano
- Phone
- (212) 746-6072
- Sponsor
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Nicole Milano
(212) 746-6072
njm4001@med.cornell.edu - Notes
- This is a hybrid lecture. Onsite attendance is available in A-126 (1300 York Avenue.) Virtual attendance is available at https://weillcornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3Sp3-_QjQ668O0mZGvRMeA#/registration