Health Activism and Social Justice in American Medicine, 1945 to the present

After the Second World War medical students and young physicians, as well as other
health professionals, began to demand changes in the structure of the American
medical profession and the delivery of health care. Attacks on anti-Semitism and
racism, nuclear weapons testing and dehumanizing treatment of hospital patients was
initially resisted by many who accused activists of Communism and anti-
Americanism, but by the 1960s federal support of community medicine and other
social programs gave such activists a place (as well as funding) to push for significant
changes in medical training, hiring, admission and practice. This talk will briefly
examine the legacy of this struggle and the continuing efforts to humanize America
medicine.
Naomi Rogers, PhD
Professor of the History of Medicine, Program in the
History of Science and Medicine and Section of the
History of Medicine, Yale University
Webinar was recorded on January 12, 2024.
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