Click play to listen. Recorded on November 14, 2010.
From its founding in 1881 until it closed in 2009, Michael Reese Hospital touched the lives of countless individuals and diverse communities in Chicago. It spanned the arc from a time when hospitals were places of institutionalization to one in which they became places of community. Join Alan Kraut, professor of history at American University and the leading historian of immigration and medicine, Dr. Marc Slutsky, a former Reese doctor, and historian and curator Rhoda Rosen as they place Michael Reese in the larger context of ethnic / religious hospitals in America.