Aaron David Abraham Shakow

Harvard University

Monday, April 4, 2022, 5:00 pm EDT
Online Event

The DALY and other "engineering" approaches to health care delivery are usually described as tools of equity and public welfare. But their ultimate origin is in the laws, practices, and values of unfree labor. What is this buried history, and how does it contribute to the structure of global health today?

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Red poppy, or Papaver rhoeas

Red poppy, or Papaver rhoeas, from an unpublished manuscript titled English medical botany : or coloured figures of British medical plants with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth, to which are added occasional remarks, by Sir James Edward Smith, M.D., 1822. Image courtesy of Yale University.