Healthcare and Immigrant Healthcare in the United States with Beatrix Hoffman
Episode 79 - September 27, 2021
Beatrix Hoffman (Northern Illinois University) joins the Infectious Historians to discuss the healthcare system in the United States. The conversation begins with an overview of the American healthcare system and its origins, then proceeds to cover governmental health programs, highlighting those who receive treatment (and in what form), and those who do not receive treatment and remain uninsured. Beatrix focuses in particular on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in the 1960s and 1970s, and their attempt to provide heavily subsidized healthcare to union members. The conversation concludes with a reflection on some of Beatrix’s public facing work, in particular her curation of exhibitions at the National Library of Medicine.
Further Reading
- Flaherty, Colleen. "When to go remote?", Inside Higher Ed., August 20, 2021.
- Hoffman, Beatrix. “Immigrant Sanctuary or Danger: Hospitals and Health Care in the United States,” Migration and Society 4 (1), 2021: 62-75.
- Hoffman, Beatrix. Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Molina, Natalia. Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (University of California Press, 2006).
- National Library of Medicine Exhibition Program.
- Voces of a Pandemic - an oral history project documenting impact of COVID on immigrant and Latinx communities
Our Guest
Beatrix Hoffman
Professor – Department of History – University of Northern Illinois
