Race, Medicine, and the "Discovery" of Sickle Cell Anemia
Todd L. Savitt
Monday, 24 Feb 2003 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Todd L. Savitt is an historian of medicine at The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University who has written or co-edited four books including Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia and Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South.
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