Katherine Bankole-Medina (Coppin State University)
CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now Spring 2019
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216
Date & Time
April 29, 2019, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Description
CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now lunchtime series showcases exciting new faculty work in the humanities in a dynamic and inter-disciplinary setting with short, informal presentations and time for discussion (Lunch will be served at 11:30am)
Katherine Bankole-Medina
Professor of History, Coppin State University; 2018-2019 Dresher Center Inclusion Imperative Visiting Faculty Fellow
Professor of History, Coppin State University; 2018-2019 Dresher Center Inclusion Imperative Visiting Faculty Fellow
The Southern Typhoid Fever Thesis and Diagnostic Racism
Katherine Bankole-Medina’s research involves the impact of diagnostic racism (a medical diagnosis and health history assessment based on race), which was the scientific aspect of the southern pro-slavery argument. This talk will investigate the antebellum medical propaganda surrounding typhoid fever from 1848 through 1858. This work focuses primarily on the attempt at an intellectual construction of diagnostic racism in the antebellum medical journal The Georgia Blister and Critic.
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