Miriam
Rich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics and
Health Humanities. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Dartmouth Society of Fellows and a Lecturer in the History of Medicine
at Yale School of Medicine. She received her PhD in History of Science
from Harvard University. Her first book, Monstrous Births: Race, Gender, and Deviant Reproduction in U.S. Medical Science, 1830-1930, is under contract with Columbia University Press for the Series in Race, Inequality, and Health.
Dr.
Rich’s research and teaching interests span topics related to racial
and reproductive health inequities, concepts of race and disability in
medical science, the health harms of incarceration, citizenship and
public health, the racialization of obstetric pain, gender and women’s
healthcare, the resurgence of concepts of biological race in genetics
and genomics, and vaccination policy in modern U.S. history. She has
taught courses in the Department of History at Yale University and
Dartmouth College and has also worked for Yale’s SEICHE Center for
Health and Justice.