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Health Disparities, Bioethics, and Justice
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Nov 14, 2005
from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM |
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| Where | Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library |
| Contact Name | Rob Peeler |
| Contact Phone | (814) 863-5911 |
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Vanessa Northington Gamble, M.D., Ph.D. 
Director, Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care
Vanessa Northington Gamble is the Director of the Tuskegee Bioethics Center. Publications by Dr. Northington Gamble include The Black Community Hospital: Contemporary Dilemmas in Historical Perspective;Germs Have No Color Line: Blacks and American Medicine 1900-1940; and Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement 1920-1945.
Health Disparities, Bioethics, and Justice
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In this presentation, Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble will provide an historical overview of racial and ethnic disparities in health care. She will also examine why these disparities are a bioethics issue and what bioethicists can do to address them. Dr. Gamble will also analyze the absence of discussions of race and racism in contemporary bioethics and the consequences of this absence.