In this episode we begin the long and sordid saga of how race is entangled with health and medicine, and along the way you’ll find out how a rail-riding hobo took over two issues of the Journal of the American Economic Association in 1896 with 329 pages that shaped ideas about African American health for decades. Sources are available in the transcript at: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/uploads/1/1/0/5/110557873/race_and_health_part_1.pdf.
