2022 Essays

Yellow Fever and Other Plagues: Saint-Domingue, Biopolitics, and the Roots of Racism in American Public Health

Millner, Sam

"Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal" was founded in 2017 by Arden Hegele, a literary scholar, and Rishi Goyal, a physician. Its mission is to develop conversations among diverse people thinking about medical and humanistic ways of knowing ... as a “Department Without Walls” that connects scholars and thinkers from different spheres.