Spring Speaker Series 2021 Videos: Nora O’Neill

We’re delighted to be able to announce the first of the recorded and captioned videos from our spring speaker series held back in March and April of this year. Our first speaker was Nora O’Neill, a first-year medical student at Yale School of Medicine. She is pursuing a combined MD-PhD in the History of Science and Medicine. In 2018, she completed her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in the History of Science, focusing on the intersection of disability rights and reproductive justice. At Yale, she plans to study the social constructions of disability in medical and social activist spaces. As a physician historian, she hopes to engage in patient-centered care while also unraveling the historical complexities of the patient-doctor relationship. Her talk is titled “Carry On: The Depiction of Post-War Disability in Government Propaganda and Consumer Culture, 1919-1925.”