In conjunction with Geraldine Ondrizek’s exhibition Shades of White, Dr. Alexandra Stern, historian of science and medicine and Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Culture, and History at the University of Michigan, speaks about her book Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America.
Dr. Stern is author of the recent books Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) and Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (University of California Press, 2005), among others. In addition to her historical research, Dr. Stern has authored several recent health policy papers relating to influenza and community mitigation. As director of the Program in Contemporary History and Health Policy, Dr. Stern studies pressing issues in health, society, and policy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and their applicability to contemporary health issues. Currently, her team is conducting qualitative research in the United States and Mexico into the deployment of non-pharmaceutical interventions during the 2009 A/H1N1 outbreak.
