Join the Anthracite Heritage Museum and Eckley Miners' Village for a special virtual program:
Beyond Black Lung: Managing Healthcare and Pandemics in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region
October 13, 2020 7:00 pm
As we all negotiate 2020 as the year of COVID-19, The Anthracite Heritage Museum and Eckley Miners' Village present an evening of discussion and presentations on the nuances of health care in the Anthracite Coal region of Pennsylvania from the 19th century to today.
Zoom connection:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81950813485?pwd=NVFaWE9MMHJHM3h1bCtTSDY5d0VhUT09.
Host: Bode Morin, Anthracite Heritage Museum and Eckley Miners' Village
Moderator/commentators: Cynthia Drazenovich and Harold Aurund, Penn State Schuylkill
Speakers:
John Fielding, Anthracite Heritage Museum
The Company Doctor: Early healthcare in the Anthracite Region 1890-1980
Sarah Puccini, Lackawanna Historical Society
A Scarcity of Caskets: The 1918 Spanish Flu in Scranton
Sarah Sporko, Eckley Miners' Village
A Repeat of History: Comparing the Management of the Spanish Influenza with the Management of the COVID-19 Crisis in Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Kyla Cools, University of Maryland
Material Culture and Structural Violence: Reframing Evidence of the Social Gradient in Industrial Contexts
