The University at Buffalo's
Department of Surgery
presents

Beyond the Knife

Health Equity and Social Justice

Inaugural Lecture

Deidre Cooper Owens, PhD​​

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​Professor Cooper Owens is The Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine in the History of Medicine at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Director of the University’s Humanities in Medicine program.  Her first book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (UGA Press) won the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the OAH as the best book written in African American women’s and gender history. Professor Cooper Owens is an Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia.