But what does it mean?  Does anyone know?  Is 1848 a significant year in
public health?  The description doesn't say.
S

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From: "Dennis Raphael" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [spiritof1848]


> 1848 runs a listserve - see below
>
> Spirit of 1848 Caucus
>
>  The Spirit of 1848: A Network Linking Politics, Passion, and Public
Health
>
> The Spirit of 1848 is a network of people concerned about social
inequalities in
> health. Our purpose is to spur new
> connections among the many of us involved in different areas of public
health,
> who are working on diverse public health issues  (whether as researchers,
> practitioners, teachers, activists, or all of the above), and live
scattered
> across diverse regions of the  United States and other countries. In doing
so,
> we hope to help counter the fragmentation that many of us face: within and
> between disciplines, within and between work on particular diseases or
health
> problems, and within and between different  organizations geared to
specific
> issues or social groups. By making connections, we can overcome some of
the
> isolation that  we feel and find others with whom we can develop our
thoughts,
> strategies, and enhance efforts to eliminate social inequalities  in
health.
>
>  Our common focus is that we are all working, in one way or another, to
> understand and change how social divisions based  on social class,
> race/ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and age affect the public's
health. As
> an activist network, we have  established five committees to conduct our
work:
>
>  1) Public Health Data: This committee focuses on how and why we
measureand
> study social inequalities in health, and  develops projects to influence
the
> collection of data in US vital statistics, health surveys, and disease
> registries.
>
>  2) Curriculum: This committee focuses on how public health and other
health
> professionals and students are trained and,  gathers and shares
information
> about courses and materials to spur critical thinking about social
inequalities
> in health, in their  present and historical context.
>
>  3) E-Networking: This committee will focus on networking and
communication
> within the Spirit of 1848, using e-mail, web  page, newsletters, and
occasional
> mailings.
>
>  4) Mentoring/Outreach: This committee will develop mentoring
relationships, so
> that some of us who have been around for a  while can share our experience
> with--and also learn from--others of us who are relatively new to public
health.
>
>  5) History: This committee is an affiliate of the Sigerist Circle, an
already
> established organization of public health and medical  historians who use
> critical theory (Marxian, feminist, and otherwise) to illuminate the
history of
> public health and how we have  arrived where we are today; its presence in
the
> Spirit of 1848 helps ensure our network's project are grounded in this
sense  of
> history, complexity, and context.
>
>  We develop themes for our sessions at our annual business meeting at
APHA, each
> committee organizing at most one  session. After the theme is selected, we
> solicit specified presentations (by both invitation and by requests for
> abstracts) and  also advertise on our Spirit of 1848 email bulletin board
if we
> are looking or presentations to address the selected themes.
>
> Nancy Krieger
> Dept of Health & Social Behavior
> Harvard School of Public Health
> 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
> Phone: (617) 432-1571
> Fax: (617) 432-3755
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