Dartmouth professor Allen Koop will discuss the history of America’s troubled, promising, and unique health care system in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on February 3 at 7 pm. His talk, “The History of Health Care in the US,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public. Koop will discuss how America’s health care system has been shaped not only by developments in medicine but also by social forces, economics, politics, and historical surprises.
Koop graduated from Dartmouth College and then earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches courses in the History Department at Dartmouth College, primarily on 20th century European history and on the American health care system.
Underwriter: Union Institute & University, MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
The Vermont Department of Libraries is the statewide underwriter of First Wednesdays. Brooks Memorial Library is sponsored by the Brattleboro Retreat; Brattleboro Camera Club; Brattleboro Savings & Loan Association; Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC; Friends of Brooks Memorial Library; New Chapter, Inc.; Vermont Country Store; and the Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont.
