This Book Club is offered as part of the 4th Annual WCM Diversity Week. We encourage you to participate in other events offered!
Welcome to the Book Club LibGuide for "Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette" by Dr. Keith Wailoo.
Join members of the Weill Cornell community for a discussion about the historical and enduring perceptions of health and race on Thursday, April 28th, 2022 from 1:00-2:00 PM. The meeting will be held virtually (via Zoom). Reading the book (which is available as an e-book) is encouraged but not required! The book club is hosted by the Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, Samuel J. Wood Library, and Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and is open to all members of the Tri-Institutional partnership. Registration for the book club is available here.
The book club on April 28 is intended to serve as a companion event for Dr. Keith Wailoo's Heberden Society lecture on April 27th at 5:00 PM. Separate registration for his lecture is available here.
More information about the book club, Heberden Society lecture, and supplementary material is available through this LibGuide!
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Keith Andrew Wailoo is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Department of History and the School of Public and International Affairs. He is former Chair of the Department of History, the former Vice Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, and current President of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
He is an award-winning author on drugs and drug policy; race, science, and health; and genetics and society; and he is known also for insightful public writing and media commentaries on history of medicine, pandemics and society, and medical affairs in the U.S.
In 2021, he received the Dan David Prize for his “influential body of historical scholarship focused on race, science, and health equity; on the social implications of medical innovation; and on the politics of disease.” In 2021, he was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
Learn more about Dr. Keith Wailoo and his work here and at KeithWailoo.com
