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Race, Health, & SocietyEmory University, Spring, 2001
Sponsored by:
The Program of African American Studies and the Program in Science & SocietySeminar Coordinators:
Mark Sanders, Director of African American Studies
Howard Kushner, Robertson Professor of Science & Society.Catalyzed by recent events on campus around issues of race and intelligence, this faculty seminar hopes to provide a "safe space" for exploration of issues that often are not discussed, but need to be (if not at Emory, where?). The seminar is composed of approximately 20 faculty with diverse backgrounds and disciplines.
Readings and discussion will examine the topic health and disease as it relates to issues of race. One aim will be to explore how these issues might productively be integrated into our courses. Additionally, as the seminar evolves, we see it potentially serving as a structure and conceptual base from which to help develop and select the new Luce "Race" Chair being proposed in the College.
"Race, Health, and Society" will meet 8-10 times next semester, spring 2001, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursdays with lunch provided. Participants will be provided 2-3 articles on selected topics prior each discussion. The first half of the seminar will focus on four general aspects of race and disease in historical perspective. After the first five weeks seminar participants will collectively decide the foci, topics, and readings for future sessions. We expect that these sessions will examine contemporary issues such as HIV/AIDS, hypertension, and behavioral disorders. We also expect to have limited funds to invite off-campus guests with special expertise to participate in the seminar, as well as to present lectures to the wider Emory community.
Participants
George Armelagos, Anthropology
Chris Beck, Biology
Amy Brown, editor Academic Exchange
Peter Brown, Anthropology
Doug Falls, Biology
Arri Eisen, Biology, Science & Society
Joyce Essien, Public Health
Frances Foster, Womenís Studies, English
Eric Goldstein, History
Leslie Harris, History
Carol Hogue, Public Health
Camara Jones, CDC
Aaron Klink, College Senior
Howard Kushner, Science & Society
Leandris Liburd, CDC
Pat Marsteller, Biology
Assefa Negwo, Anthropology
Emily Osinoff, College Senior
Randy Packard, History
Cindy Patton, ILA
Maurita Poole, Public Health
Mark Risjord, Philosophy
Alyssa Robillard, Public Health
Claire Sterk, Public Health
Mark Sanders, English, African American Studies
Irwin Waldman, Psychology
Initial Meetings and Topics:
1 February 2001:
Topic: Race, Health and Society, General Discussion:8 February 2001:
Topic: Race, Health, and Disease:Savitt, Todd L. "Black Health on the Plantation: Masters, Slaves, & Physicians," in Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health, Editors Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers. 2nd revised ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, pp. 313-330.
Galishoff, Stuart. "Germs Know No Color Line: Black Health and Public Policy in Atlanta, 1900-1918." Journal of the History of Medicine, 40 (1985): 22-41.
Tera W. Hunter, "Tuberculosis as the 'Negro Servants' Disease,'" Chapter 9 in Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1997.
15 February 2001:
Topic: Sickle Cell Anemia (Genetic Disease):Feldman, Simon D. and Alfred E. Tauber. "Sickle Cell Anemia: Reexamining the First 'Molecular Disease', " Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 71 (1997): 623-650.
Wailoo, Keith. "A disease sui generis": the origins of sickle cell anemia and the emergence of modern clinical research, 1904-1924." Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1991 Summer, 65(2):185-208.
Tapper, Melbourne. "An 'Anthropology' of the 'American Negro': Anthropology, Genetics, and the New Racial Science, 1940-1952," Social History of Medicine, 10 (1997): 263-289.
22 February 2001:
Topic: Tuskegee Syphilis Trials (Infectious Disease)Brandt, Allan M. "Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study," in Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health, pp. 331-343. Editors Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers. 2nd revised ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
Jones, James H. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. New and expanded edition New York: Free Press, 1993, pp. 188-219.
Benedek, Thomas G. and Jonathon Erlen. "The Scientific Environment of the Tuskegee Study of Syphilis, 1920-1960" in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 43:1 (1999): 1-301 March 2001:
Topic: The Case of Pellagra (Dietary Deficiencies)Folkes, H. M. "The Negro as a Health Problem," JAMA, October 8, 1910.
Siler, J.F., Garrison, P.E., and W.J. MacNeal. Pellegra: A Summary of the First Progress Report of the Thompson-McFadden Pellagra Commission, from the Pellegra Meeting at Spartanburg, SC., Sept. 3, 1913.
Roe, Daphne. A Plague of Corn: The Social History of Pellagra. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973, pp. 77-119.
Sargent, Neal James. Introduction to Etiology and Medical Paradigms: The Conceptualization of Nutritional Deficiency Disease and Pellagra, Thesis for Master of Arts in History, San Diego State University, 1993.
8 and 15 March 2001:
No Meeting: Spring Recess22 March 2001:
Topic: Race and Hypertension:Nancy Krieger and Stephen Sidney, "Racial discrimination and blood pressure: The CARDIA study of young black and white adults," American Journal of Public Health 8b: 1370-78, 1996.
Sally Satel, "The Indoctrologists Are Coming," Atlantic Monthly (January, 2001)
29 March 2001:
Topic: Can Racism Cause Disease?Michael Root, "The Problem of Race in Disease", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol 31, No. 1, March, 2001, 20-39.
Camara Jones, "Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener's Tale," American Journal of Public Health Volume 90(8), August 2000,1212-1215.
5 April 2001:
Topic: Jews, Blacks, and "Immigrant Disease"Alan Kraut, Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace." Chapter 6, Gezunthayt iz besser vi krankhayt: Fighting the Stigma of the "Jewish Disease" , BasicBooks, 1995
12 April 2001:
Topic: Race: Anthropological and Philosophical PerspectivesMark Risjord, "The Politics of Explanation and the Origins of Ethnography," Perspectives on Science, Vol 8, No 1, 2000, 29-53.
Ryan Brown and George Armelagos, "Apportionment of Racial Diversity: a Review, submitted for publication
18 April 2001:
Special Event: Alliance Theater's production of Gilman's Spinning into Butter19 April 2001:
Topic: Segregation & Disease (Guest Speaker: Dr. JoAnne Brown, Dickinson, College) and discussion of previous evening's playGuest Lecture: JoAnne Brown, "Building The Fence: Medical Segragation And Racial Segregation," (2001)
26 April 2001:
Topic: Review and Wrap-up
