Charlotte Borst, dean of arts and sciences, spoke recently
at Johns Hopkins University's Department of the History
of Science, Medicine, and Technology. Her paper was titled
“Poor, Pregnant, and Black in Bull Conner's Birmingham:
The Politics of Indigent Care and Academic Medicine in
Birmingham, Alabama, 1950-1964.” This paper, submitted for
publication in the Journal of Southern
History, is part of the research for her book,
Making the Student Body: Gender and Race and Admission
to Medical School in America, 1920-70.