BRATTLEBORO — 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 Feb. 3 at 7 p.m.
His talk, “The History of Health Care in the U.S.,” 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 Ph.D. 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.
The Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays series is held on the first Wednesday of every month from October through May in nine communities statewide, featuring speakers of national and regional renown.
Talks in Brattleboro are held at Brooks Memorial Library unless otherwise noted. The program is free, accessible to people with disabilities, and open to the public.
Upcoming talks in Brattleboro include “Celebrating E. B. White” with Dartmouth professor Nancy Jay Crumbine on March 2; “An Evening with Poet Major Jackson” with UVM professor Major Jackson on April 6; and “What the Buddhists Teach: Finding Clarity in Everyday Life” with author Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath on May 4.
For more information, contact Brooks Memorial Library at 802-254-5290 or visit www.vermonthumanities.org.