Making the Personal Professional and Political, and the Need for History in Medicine

 

The Elias E. Manuelidis Lecture in the History of Medicine:

 

Making the Personal Professional and Political, and the Need for History in Medicine

 

Nathan Ha, MD, PhD

Psychiatry Resident, Yale School of Medicine

 

 

The talk begins at 4:30 PM and will be held entirely on Zoom.

Meeting ID: 992 9763 2968

Zoom Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/99297632968

 

Nathan Ha is a resident in the department of psychiatry at Yale. He earned his PhD from Princeton in the history of science, and gender and sexuality studies; and his MD from Hofstra Northwell. He has been a fellow at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics. His research focuses on the dynamic relationship between patients, clinicians, and researchers in shaping understandings of human health and difference. He has developed and taught classes on the history of psychiatry; LGBTQ health; race, gender and science. He is currently working on projects in the field of medical education, especially to improve care for people marked by differences of race, gender, and sexuality.