"The Cultural Politics of Pain, from Percodan to Kevorkian": A presentation by Professor Keith Wailoo April 1, 2009

In this project, Dr. Wailoo examines the history of controversies in America over pain relief in relation to American liberalism and conservatism. This talk is part of Dr. Wailoo's latest book project, Over-Prescribed/Under-Medicated: The Cultural Politics of Pain in America. Professor Wailoo is Martin Luther King Jr., Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he is jointly appointed in the Department of History and in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. He is also founding Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers. Before joining Rutgers in July 2001, he taught in the Department of History and in the Department of Social Medicine (in the Medical School) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 in the History and Sociology of Science, and holds a Bachelors Degree from Yale University in Chemical Engineering (1984).

Dr. Wailoo's visit is hosted by the Health and Society Group of Quadrant, a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study. Quadrant is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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