C.J. Valasek

C.J. Valasek

Contributor

C.J. Valasek, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health at the University of California San Diego. C.J.’s work is primarily focused on the politics of science and health, including the history of behavioral models used in addiction medicine.

Clio Reads

Reckoning with the History of Racial Marketing of Menthol Cigarettes

By •

In Pushing Cool, Dr. Keith Wailoo presents a sixty-year history of menthol cigarettes becoming a racialized product. Wailoo has written a number of essential books on race, racism, and health since the 1990s, including Pain: A Political History and How Cancer Crossed the Color Line. This is the first of Wailoo’s books to deal with… Read more →