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History of Race and Racism in Science and Medicine (2)- Oct 18th

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October 18, 2023 @ 1:00 pm 2:30 pm

Course Objectives

  1. Understand the way medicine/science has been used to create and further racism
  2. Understand the history of the creation of racial categories and hierarchy, particularly by physicians, and how that framework is still used in modern medicine
  3. Recognize race as a social and political construct
  4. Explain how and why race is not biological or genetic