Why the History of Health and Medicine Matters

Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
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Rachael Hill discusses how the social and cultural history of health and medicine can uncover a variety of political, social and economic conditions that are crucial to understanding the larger history of a region. The social etiology of disease, a phenomenon central to indigenous African therapeutic systems has recently entered into the work of western epidemiologists and physicians. Free.
Location: 
J. Paul Leonard Library, Special Collections Reading Room
Sponsor: 
History Department, J. Paul Leonard Library
Contact: 
Bianca Alper
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Hill earned her Master of Arts program in History from SF State and is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University interested in the history of health and medicine in Africa. Her dissertation research focuses on the history of medicinal plant research and therapeutic pluralism in 20th-century Ethiopia.

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