Lunch & Learn – 2022 Archive
September 21, 2022
Quacks, Heroes, and Humans: A Short History of Physicians in Comics and Cartoons
A conversation with Renée Rau
Renée A. Rau, a Southern California native, earned a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree at San José State University (SJSU) in December 2020. In 2017, she earned an MA in 20th-century United States history, specializing in women’s and gender history, from Washington State University (WSU). She works as an Information Services Librarian at the Norris Medical Library and liaisons with the Keck School of Medicine. Her current research interests include Graphic Medicine, pathways to health sciences librarianship, and reproductive health information.
Throughout the modern era physicians have been the subject of satirical cartoons, comic strips, and most recently Graphic Medicine. Ranging from the quack doctor, to post World War II heroes, to everyday people, the image and narratives surrounding ‘the physician’ has changed over time and reflects larger societal issues.
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March 14, 2022
Fearing Fertility: The Undocumented, USC Medical Center, and Forced Sterilizations, 1968-1974
A conversation with George J. Sánchez
George J. Sánchez is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California (USC) and an award-winning scholar of Mexican American history and immigration. He is the author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles (Oxford, 1993) and the newly published Boyle Heights: How A Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy (California, 2021). He was born in Boyle Heights to two immigrant parents from Mexico and is a first-generation college student, receiving his B.A. from Harvard College in 1981 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1989.
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