Racism, Medicine, and NEJM since 1812 - The Historical Roots of Injustice in Medicine, Symposium 1

Joan Y Reede1, Winfred W Williams1, David S Jones1

  • 1From the Office of Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership (J.Y.R.), the Department of Medicine (J.Y.R.), the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (D.S.J. S.H.P., J.P.G.), and the Center for the History of Medicine (S.H.P., M.B.K.), Harvard Medical School; and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (J.Y.R.) - both in Boston; the Department of the History of Science (D.S.J., E.H.), the Deppartment of African and African American Studies (E.H.), and the Department of Anthropology (J.P.G.), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, and the Harvard University Native American Program (J.P.G), Cambridge; and the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York (M.C.).

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