Please join the Center for Biomedical Ethics on Tuesday, September 29 at 10:00 am PT for a presentation entitled “The Ethical Predicament of Genetic Innovation: Lessons from the History of Race and Disease” by Keith Wailoo.
Keith Wailoo, PhD is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs. He is jointly appointed in the Department of History and in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He is former Vice Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, former Chair of History, and current President of the American Association for the History of Medicine (2020-2022). His research straddles history and health policy, touching on drugs and drug policy, on the politics of race and health, on the interplay of identity, ethnicity, gender, and medicine, and on controversies in genetics and society. His next book, to be published in 2021, is Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette (University of Chicago Press).