Event Description
Through the lens of death and disease, Building the Worlds That Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History provide a new way of understanding the history of the United States from the colonial era to the present. Speakers will demonstrate that the changing rates and kinds of illnesses reflect social, political, and economic structures and inequalities of race, class, and gender. These deep inequities determine the disparate health experiences of rich and poor, Black and white, men and women, immigrant and native-born, boss and worker, Indigenous and settler. This book underscores that powerful people and institutions have always seen some lives as more valuable than others, and it emphasizes how those who have been most affected by the disparities in rates of disease and death have challenged and changed these systems.
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required. Please email NiTanya Nedd at [email protected] with any questions.
Hosted by the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
