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Better Together Dialogue: Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine



Feb 29

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Better Together Dialogue: Maladies of Empire

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Better Together Dialogue: Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

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Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Hybrid
Zoom and Minot Conference Room (Room 506), Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115

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Jim Downs is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (Harvard UP, 2021), which will be translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. His other books include Sick from Freedom: African American Sickness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Oxford UP, 2012) and Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (Basic Books, 2016). He coedited along with Jennifer Brier and Jennifer L. Morgan, Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America. He has published essays in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Vice, Slate, The Lancet, LA Times, among others. He is also the editor of Civil War History. In 2023, he was elected to both the Society for American Historians in the US and the Royal Historical Society in the UK.

This event is co-sponsored by the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership (DICP), HMS Center for Bioethics, Center for the History of Medicine, and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.

Harvard University welcomes individuals with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you would like to request accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Sarah Foy (sarah_foy@hms.harvard.edu) in advance of your participation or visit. Requests for American Sign Language interpreters and/or CART providers should be made at least two weeks in advance, if possible. Please note that the University will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability. 

Feb 29
Better Together Event

Better Together Dialogue: Maladies of Empire

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Better Together Dialogue: Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

Watch the recording.

Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Hybrid
Zoom and Minot Conference Room (Room 506), Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115

Register for the event (virtual or in person).

Jim Downs is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (Harvard UP, 2021), which will be translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. His other books include Sick from Freedom: African American Sickness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Oxford UP, 2012) and Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (Basic Books, 2016). He coedited along with Jennifer Brier and Jennifer L. Morgan, Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America. He has published essays in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Vice, Slate, The Lancet, LA Times, among others. He is also the editor of Civil War History. In 2023, he was elected to both the Society for American Historians in the US and the Royal Historical Society in the UK.

This event is co-sponsored by the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership (DICP), HMS Center for Bioethics, Center for the History of Medicine, and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.

Harvard University welcomes individuals with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you would like to request accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Sarah Foy (sarah_foy@hms.harvard.edu) in advance of your participation or visit. Requests for American Sign Language interpreters and/or CART providers should be made at least two weeks in advance, if possible. Please note that the University will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability.