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Biographical Dictionary of American Physicians of African Ancestry, 1800-1920
Presents biographical information on physicians of African ancestry who practiced in the United States or taught those who practiced in the U.S. between 1800 and 1920. Features almost 3,000 entries that provide the physician's birth and death dates, place of practice, medical school and year of graduation, birthplace, parents, spouse, and children. Includes a geographical index and a general index.
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Physicians for the People
"African Americans have always fared worse than whites in enjoying the benefits of material progress and medical discovery. Black sociologist and civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois argued that high mortality rates among Black people were rooted not in racial inferiority but in "the conditions of life," a fact illustrated by tuberculosis, which was three times higher among Blacks than whites, as well as the infant mortality rate for nonwhite children, which was 149.7 deaths per 1,000 births as opposed to 92.8 per 1,000 for white children. In "Physicians for the People: Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870-1970," Jack D. Ellis argues that the post-Civil War ...
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Ebony
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South
Drawing on a variety of sources from oral histories to the records of professional organizations, Thomas J. Ward, Jr. examines the development of the African American medical profession in the South. Illuminating the contradictions of race and class, this research provides valuable new insight into class divisions within African American communities in the era of segregation.
An American Health Dilemma
At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty. Virtually every part of this story revolves around race. More than 50 years after the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 classic about race relations in the USA, An American Health Dilemma presents a comprehensive and groundbreaking history and social analysis of race, race relations a...
The Clinton Years
Comprehensive and easy to navigate, "The Clinton Years" gives readers a full perspective of Bill Clinton's presidency, from his successful economic policies to his relations with Monica Lewinsky. This comprehensive A-to-Z reference contains more than 250 biographical entries examining the main politicians and foreign leaders during the administration, and includes a number of primary source documents such as presidential speeches and executive decisions.
