Diet and Nutrition. Natural Health, and Healthy Living

I'm kind of shocked that I am only finding out about this conference, entitled "MAKING HEALTH, MAKING RACE: HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO RACE, MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH," 10 days before it begins, especially since it's in Austin, is on a topic near and dear to me, and features so many of the leading scholars, but here you go:

Questions about the shared quality of life and the distribution of health care are part of our shared historical experience. Across the Americas, medicine is an important economic sector, and access to health care is also a key dimension of both citizenship and exclusion. Medical historians have explored the ways public health and medicine have shaped the ideologies and institutions that shape racial inequality, the experience of slavery and freedom, as well as the minimum conditions for citizenship and personal dignity. Historians and scholars in African American Studies, Latino Studies and Gender Studies have explored the ways men and women in communities of color have shaped and challenged the institutions of public health and medicine.
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So it’s been a wild month at THCB. While the Health 2.0 conference sucked up every available waking and some non-waking moments in Matthew & John’s lives, Sarah Arnquist—our future Pulitzer Prize winner & THCB’s staff writer & editor—has been keeping the fires stoked with a succession of home-grown & judiciously selected articles. And boy has it appeared to attract the public.

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