Peter Baldwin
 Professor of History, UCLA

"Can There Be a Democratic Public Health:
Fighting AIDS in Europe"

Wednesday, 25 February 2004
4:00 p.m.
6102 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive

Sponsored by The Center for European Studies Link to CES website and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics

This talk is part of the Annual Lecture Series on the
Transnational Implications of Health Threats
(click here for the 2003-04 History of Science calendar)

Peter Baldwin's fields of interest include the comparative history of modern Europe, modern Germany, modern France, Scandinavia, and historiography. He received his B.A. from Yale in 1978 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1986. He has published The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State 1875-1975 (Cambridge, 1990); the edited volume Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians' Debate (Beacon, 1990), and Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge, 1999). He is currently working on a study of the AIDS epidemic in historical perspective.