Historian to discuss race, health

Wailoo

eith Wailoo, a historian of medicine nationally known for his research on disease and its relationship to race, health politics, and group identity, will present two talks at the Medical Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 20.

Wailoo will discuss "Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health" at 1 p.m. in the Class of 1962 Auditorium, followed at 4:30 p.m. by his talk, "From White Plague to Black Death: The Strange Career of Race and Cancer in 20th Century America," in the Helen Wood Hall Lounge.

Professor of history, Wailoo is jointly appointed in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, at Rutgers University. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science, the Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award, and grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Human Genome Research.

Both talks are open to the University community. The discussion on sickle cell anemia has been integrated into the first-year curriculum for medical students and will be followed by a discussion moderated by Ted Brown, chair of the Department of History and professor of community and preventive medicine.

Sponsoring the events are the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at the Medical Center, the School of Medicine and Dentistry's Medical Education Office, the School of Nursing, and the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies and the Department of History at the College, with additional support from the Office of Minority Student Affairs, the Charles Drew Pre-Health Professions Society, and the College Diversity Roundtable.

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