Health & Environment

Health & Environment

Exploring the significance and impact of human behavior on our collective sense of well-being and our physical, cultural, and social surroundings.

In-House Programs

Health & Environment

Environmental Humanities

Environmental issues intersect with the other crucial aspects of American life—health, culture, religion, economics—and Environmental Humanities opens these discussions for all of us.

Speaker Programs

Health & Environment

Being Buried Alive: The Fear that Swept 19th Century America

The line dividing life from death was not clearly defined in the 1800’s. In the rush to bury a corpse quickly, before contagious disease could spread, people who were comatose, catatonic, sedated, or just plain drunk were sometimes mistaken for dead.

Health & Environment

Fighting Jim Crow Discrimination and Segregation in Health Care

This program examines the nature of health care for African Americans prior to the passage of modern Civil Rights legislation in the mid-1960s. As people of color struggled with medical needs, they also grappled on another front—segregation and discrimination in the medical system.