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Date: April 16, 2013
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Light refreshments at 5:30 p.m., Lecture at 6:00 p.m.
Speaker(s):
David Rosner, PhD, Columbia University and Gerald Markowitz, PhD, John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center
Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
This talk explores the controversy over research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute at Johns Hopkins, where researchers were accused of engaging in unethical, even racist, research. During the 1990s, investigators at Johns Hopkins's' Kennedy Krieger Institute studied 108 African American children, aged 6 months to 6 years, to find an inexpensive and "practical" means to ameliorate lead poisoning. Historians David Rosner and Gerlad Markowitz examine the case in light of contemporary public health ideology, which prioritizes harm reduction over the historical goals of prevention. They argue that the questions posed by the KKI case, as well as advances in environmental science documenting the long term effects of low-level toxins, will hopefully encourage a broader discussion about the relationship of science and society, science and industry, research and patients' rights, and what might be called the conundrum of public health. Their reserach uses lead poisoning research to explore the numerous dilemmas public health must face today as it tries to develop prevention strategies for emerging chronic illnesses linked to low levels of toxic exposure.
About the Speaker(s)
Gerald Markowitz is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. David Rosner is Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. They are co-authors of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (University of California Press, 2002), Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Industrial Disease in Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press, 1991) and Dying for Work: Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth Century America (Indiana University Press, 1987).
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