Virtual Event
History of Race and Racism in Medicine & Science (2) – Feb 5th
Virtual Event
February 5, 2025 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Course Objectives
- Understand the way medicine/science has been used to create and further racism
- Understand the history of the creation of racial categories and hierarchy, particularly by physicians, and how that framework is still used in modern medicine
- Recognize race as a social and political construct
- Explain how and why race is not biological or genetic