To Educate or Eliminate: Black Midwives and Infant Welfare in the Early Twentieth Century

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To Educate or Eliminate: Black Midwives and Infant Welfare in the Early Twentieth Century

Feb 20, 2019 at | Claire Fagin Hall, room 116

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To Educate or Eliminate: Black Midwives and Infant Welfare in the Early Twentie…
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Brandeis University
Speaker Biographies

<p><a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/facultyguide/person.html?emplid=52d7f962cf9c19…; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wangui Muigai</a>&nbsp;is the Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Race, Science and Society at Brandeis University. She received her Ph.D. in history of science from Princeton University and earned an A.B., cum laude, in history of science from Harvard University. Her research on race and medicine has appeared in the British Journal for the History of Science, and is forthcoming in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and African American Review. She is currently at work on a book-length history of black infant mortality in the United States.</p>