Law, Difference, and Healthcare: Making Sense of Structural Racism in Medico-Legal History

The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies and the Department of History at Princeton University are hosting a conference and workshop on “Law, Difference, and Healthcare: Making Sense of Structural Racism in Medico-Legal History.” Our gathering will be held from Thursday to Friday afternoon of June 6-7, 2019. Our keynote speakers will be author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology Deirdre Cooper Owens and author of Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care Dayna Bowen Matthew. Our four panels will engage historiograph(ies), spatialit(ies), legalit(ies) and communit(ies), as well as methodolog(ies).

For more information, visit the conference website.

Organized by George Aumoithe

Sponsored by:

Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Department of African American Studies, University Center for Human Values, Humanities Council, Program in History of Science, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Program in American Studies, Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies, Center for the Study of Religion, Department of Anthropology, Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities