George Aumoithe
· scholar-artist and historian of the 20th century United StatesHarvard University · African and African American Studies
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I am a scholar of U.S. healthcare, comparative welfare state history, and civil rights law at Harvard University. My research focuses on the effect of anti-inflationary economic policy and colorblind ideology on public hospitals as well as the effect of fiscal policy on epidemic preparedness. The book manuscript 'Medical Scarcity: The Resegregation of Healthcare in America' demonstrates that lawmakers under postwar American liberalism used scarcity, and later efficiency, as pretexts to organize who had rightful access to healthcare. By tracing medical scarcity’s implications for the distribution of healthcare along lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality, the book traces the paradox of abundance co-existing with impoverishment. In the process, the project illustrates how lawmakers minimized American public policy’s role in continuing to reproduce racialized health disparities after legalized Jim Crow’s fall. After the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, lawmakers undermined public insuranc
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