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Viral Markets: Economics, the Environment & Emerging Disease | R. Palmer Howard 2018 History of Medicine Dinner | Friday, April 27, 2018

picture of white man with glasses in front of bookcase
picture of white man with glasses in front of bookcase
Dr. Richard C. Keller

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society 2018 R. Palmer Howard Dinner is Friday, April, 27, 2018. Radisson Hotel, Kinnick Center, 1220 1st Avenue, Coralville.  Reception at 6:30 with cash bar.  Dinner at 7:00pm, presentation at 8pm.

Richard C. Keller, Professor, Department of Medical History and Biotethics, University of Wisconsin  give a talk on Viral Markets: Economics, the Environment, and Emerging Disease in the 20th Century.  Environmental threats to human health have changed dramatically in the course of the past century.  The cases of bubonic plague, HIV/AIDS, and Lyme disease in particular help to illustrate the ways in which changes in human patterns of interaction with the environment–and specifically, the ways in which consumer markets have disrupted unstable ecologies–have opened new epidemiological pathways and presented new challenges to health and medicine in the United States and the wider world.

Reservation deadline is April 20, 2018.  Payment in advance is required.
$40 per guest, $10 per student guest

Reserve online and pay with credit card.
HOM 2018 Banquet Registration Form (print & mail with check)