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Sanitizing Revolt: Physician Strikes and Public Health (1964-1965)
Seminar Series
Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Postdoctoral fellow,
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
November 05, 2008
3:30 p.m.
Location: Institute of the Americas Complex, Deutz Room
Open to: Public
Gabriela Soto Laveaga is a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Since 2003 she has been an assistant professor in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara. Her forthcoming book,
Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill, which explores the role of Mexican scientists and peasants in the synthesis of steroid hormones, will be published in 2009 by Duke University Press. The recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, Soto Laveaga was most recently a Ford Foundation Fellow in the Department of History of Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006-07, and previously a UC President’s postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and Medical Anthropology at the School of Medicine at UC San Francisco.
Moderated by Nayan Shah Professor of History, UC San Diego
Part of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Research Seminar Series.
