“The Thing Has Not Become Known:”
The Desegregation of Hospitals in Baltimore
Presented by Alicia Puglionesi
This talk provides an overview of hospital segregation in Baltimore and describes the process of desegregation initiated by Black physicians and community leaders starting in 1945. Focusing on Johns Hopkins Hospital as an example, it examines how activists navigated both the conservative norms of the medical profession and the special position of hospitals as sites of care.
Alicia Puglionesi is a lecturer in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Her books Common Phantoms and In Whose Ruins deal with relationships between spiritual belief and scientific knowledge.
Reception at 7 PM; talk begins at 7:30 PM
