BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//github.com/ical-org/ical.net//NONSGML ical.net 4.0//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:It is well known that emergency medicine as a modern medical d iscipline arose in the late 1960s and early 1970s after the federal gover nment’s investment in research and technology to address “accidents” as a top killer of American citizens. It is less known\, however\, how such a turn towards addressing “accidents” coincided with the federal governmen t’s turn away from anti-poverty programs and the normalization of working poverty and urban violence as “normal” and “expected” features of modern American life. Looking at the institutional records of King-Drew Medical Center\, a Black-led Academic Medical Center built as a response to the 1965 Watts Uprisings\, and founding actors in emergency medical systems s uch as James O. Page\, this paper looks at how federal and local official s turned to take advantage of Black Los Angeles’s number of gunshot wound s and stabbing victims to produce new life-saving technologies. The paper argues that the demonstration of emergency medical technology and infras tructure through the racialized injured urban subject helped augur the in frastructure and expertise of war/military medicine for domestic use whil e increasing the profitability and demand for emergency medicine in white suburban enclaves. The effect not only normalized emergency medicine but also prevented citizens from making deeper demands on the government to pass gun control\, legislate new anti-poverty programs\, and end racial i nequality. Nic John Ramos is an Assistant Professor of American Studies a t the University of Texas at Austin. He has previously held a faculty app ointment in History and Africana Studies at Drexel University in Philadel phia\, Pennsylvania\, and has served as the Ford Postdoctoral Fellow in t he Program in Race\, Science\, and Society at the University of Pennsylva nia and as the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Race in Science and Medicine at Brown University. His book published with the University of Californi a's Press\, Health as Property: Racial Capitalism and Sexual Liberalism i n Los Angeles \, reveals how responses to racism can be predatory\, harmf ul\, and dangerous to poor people of color. The book examines a Black-led academic medical center known as King-Drew that was built in response to the 1965 Watts Uprising. Forged by the political willingness of white vo ters to experiment with anti-poverty programs in poor neighborhoods of co lor\, the health system's multiple missions represented the freedom dream s of civil rights\, Black Power\, welfare rights\, and consumer rights ac tivists in the 1960s and 1970s. However\, during Los Angeles's rise as a global city in the 1970s and 1980s\, white voters' desire to realize thes e dreams was curtailed by renewed narratives of health rooted in racist\, sexist\, homophobic\, and transphobic ideas about poor people of color. Instead of working to combat the forces of racial and sexual capitalism u nderlying health inequality\, a diverse group of liberal progressive lead ers inverted the healthcare aims of King-Drew. Health as Property demonst rates how healthcare policy in America is both labor and real estate poli cy\, and as such preserves health as the property of a select few.\n\nSpe aker:\nNic John Ramos\, PhD\n\nAdmission:\nFree\n\nDetails URL:\nhttps:// medicine.yale.edu/event/the-elias-e-manuelidis-lecture-in-the-history-of- medicine-with-nic-john-ramos-phd/\n DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260822T120047Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261102T163000 GEO:41.303230;-72.933870 LOCATION:Sterling Hall of Medicine\, L-Wing\, Classroom 115\, 333 Cedar St reet\, New Haven\, CT\, United States SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:Confirmed SUMMARY:Emergent Medicine\, Emergent Economies UID:eb373c4d-e0c9-4cc3-8a17-cae11d804519 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR