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The Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin announces an upcoming conference, Making Race, Making Health: Historical Approaches to Race, Medicine, and Public Health, to be held November 13-15, 2008. Paper topics are not limited to national field or geographic area and proposals that explore a particular topic within a diasporic, imperial, or transnational framework are welcome. We are interested in generating a dynamic conversation among scholars around the following themes: the interconnectedness between medical knowledge, medical practice, and processes of racialization; race, difference, and power within public health discourse and policy; inequality, activism, and health; and diagnostic and therapeutic regimes as sites of contestation. We invite proposals for individual papers on topics including, but not limited to:
Health and medical care in slave and/or post-emancipation societies
Medicine and public health in colonial settings
Racial politics of the production of medical knowledge
Racial disparities in health care
Encounters between professional and popular medicine
Race and mental health
Medicalization of racial difference
Medicine, health and European-indigenous contact
Medicine and American expansion/conquest/empire
Racial politics of medical and public health responses to epidemics and disasters
Diasporic dimensions of healing practices
Race and reproductive freedom/control
Please send an abstract (of no more than 250 words) and a CV, by January 15, 2008, to:
University of Texas at Austin
Department of History Making Race, Making Health Conference
1 University Station B7000
Austin, TX 78712-0220
For more information, e-mail msummers@mail.utexas.edu
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