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“The Troubled History of Epidemiology: How Slavery, Colonialism and War Transformed Medicine” with Jim Downs
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“The Troubled History of Epidemiology: How Slavery, Colonialism and War Transformed Medicine” with Jim Downs

“The Troubled History of Epidemiology: How Slavery, Colonialism and War Transformed Medicine” with Jim Downs

November 10, 2022
at 11:00am
– 12:00pm

The Richards Center is pleased to be co-sponsoring, alongside the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, this event featuring Dr. Jim Downs of Gettysburg College. A historian of slavery and medicine, Dr. Downs will be presenting research from his latest book Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (Harvard University Press, 2021).

This event is both in person in Foster Auditorium and will be live-streamed here.