Bodies and Pain: Reflections on History, Policy, and the Changing Market for Racial Science

Wednesday, September 30, 2020. 4:00 pm
Speaker
Keith Wailoo
Event Sponsor(s)
Program in Science, Technology and Society, African and African-American Studies, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Center for African Studies, McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Digital Civil Society Lab, Department of Communications, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Anthropology, the Steve Luby research group, Program in Human Biology, Stanford Earth, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bio Policy & Leadership in Society, Department of Bioengineering, Center for South Asia, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and the Ethics, Society, and Technology Hub
Keith Wailoo, "Bodies and Pain: Reflections on History, Policy, and the Changing Market for Racial Science"
Speaker(s):

Keith Andrew Wailoo is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University where he teaches in the Department of History and the School of Public and International Affairs. He is former Chair of the Department of History, the former Vice Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, and current President of the American Association for the History of Medicine.  He is an award-winning author on drugs and drug policy; race, science, and health; genetics and society; and history of medicine, disease, health policy and medical affairs in the U.S.

This is the part of the series of speakers for STS 51, a weekly lecture series exploring the intersections of race, racism, and scientific practice