The Space We Occupy: Academic Medical Centers and their Neighboring Communities

Max's guest is Sakena Abedin, MD, PhD, a pediatrician and historian of science and medicine at Yale University. They discuss the history of the relationship between Yale New Haven Hospital, the School of Medicine, and the surrounding New Haven, and larger Connecticut communities. They explore the themes of race, class and barriers that often impact the relationships between large academic medical centers and the communities their surrounding communities, and the implications for medical education and health justice.