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Vanderbilt Historian Explores Impact of Racism, Classism on Understanding Diabetes
August 20, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 20 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:

Research on the cultural history of diabetes, including how racism played a role in the erroneous blaming of certain racial and ethnic groups for the rise in cases, offers important lessons for COVID-19 and other public health challenges, said Arleen Tuchman, the Nelson O. Tyrone Jr. Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

Tuchman is the author of a new book, Diabetes: A History of . . .

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