Accolades for work tracing Native women’s reproductive histories and their activism
History professor Brianna Theobald earns two awards for her book “Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century”
Historian John Barry compares COVID-19 to the 1918 flu pandemic
John Barry ’69 (MA) says that the virulence of the 1918 flu made it a very different disease than COVID-19, but the lessons of that pandemic still resonate.
Detained migrants susceptible to a range of reproductive abuses and medical neglect
The history of eugenics in the United States leaves today’s migrant women vulnerable, argues University of Rochester history professor Brianna Theobald in a Washington Post “Made by History” op-ed.
In time of masking mandates, how to evaluate exemptions?
Balancing the safety of the general public while accommodating people with legitimate medical challenges is a “new frontier,” says a University health policy expert.
Historian: US once saw World Health Organization as part of foreign policy
When the World Health Organization was founded, the United States saw it as an extension of US foreign policy, says a University of Rochester historian.
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva Receives Inaugural President’s Ferrari Humanities Research Award
The assistant professor of history is the first recipient of the award, which will support research for his forthcoming book, In the Wake of the Raid: Piracy, Captivity and the 1683 Raid on Veracruz.
Theodore Brown receives Lifetime Achievement Award from American Association for the History of Medicine
Over the course of his distinguished career, the professor emeritus of history and public health sciences has “advanced the cutting edge of medical historical scholarship and shaped the work of other historians.”
COVID-19 demands a reckoning with hospitals’ fee-for-service business model
A health care system that prioritizes volume over routine care is “structurally incapable” of responding to the challenges presented by COVID-19, writes Mical Raz in a Washington Post op-ed.
Faculty couple reflects on the challenges—and surprises—of pandemic life
For history professors Molly Ball and Pablo Sierra Silva, adjusting to online teaching and caring for three young children has been a learning experience.
Will COVID-19 finally spur a revamp of US health care?
The coronavirus pandemic “has exposed the limits of such an individualistic approach” to health care, writes University health policy historian Mical Raz in the Washington Post.