2008 Idaho Conference on Health Care
Susan Starr Sered
“The Death Spiral:
How ‘the Uninsured’ Became an American Caste”
Thursday, October 23, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Susan Starr Sered, PhD, serves on the faculty of the Department of Sociology at Suffolk University, where she co-founded and directs the Master of Arts in Women’s Health – the first program in the United States dedicated to training advocates, educators and policy analysts in the field of women’s health. Before coming to Suffolk, Sered directed the ‘Religion, Health and Healing Initiative’ at Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions, and served as Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bar Ilan University in Israel. Sered’s publications include Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (University of California Press), Religion and Healing in America (Oxford), Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women (Oxford), and What Makes Women Sick?: Maternity, Modesty and Militarism in Israeli Society (UPNE). Sered’s current research explores the health and healthcare experiences of women in the criminal justice system.