Facets

1854

#8383

The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered: An address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1929

#13079

Pathfinders: A history of the progress of colored graduate nurses. With biographies of many prominent nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1934

#12990

Meharry Medical College: A history.

The first history of an African-American medical school written by an African-American. Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, was the first medical college fo…

1944

#8385

An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.

Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1951

#6846

The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded configurations of the polypeptide chain.

Pauling, his crystallographer R. B. Corey, and African-American physicist and chemist H.R. Branson announced the α-helix, a principal structural feature of proteins. Digital facsimile from the National Academy of Scie…

1961

#12015

No time for prejudice: A story of the integration of negroes in nursing in the United States.

Primarily a history of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses [NACGN], which existed for the express purpose of "promoting unity within the nursing profession and furthering the cause of democracy." Integ…

1971

#11665

Blacks, medical schools and society.

A study of the trends in black enrollments in the nation’s medical schools, and various public and higher education factors that limited the supply of black physicians in America through the 1960s.

1983

#8082

Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.

1986

#8088

The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.

1989

#8087

Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.

1994

#10090

Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.

"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…

1998

#12553

African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.

1999

#9224

African-American dental surgeons and the U.S. Army Dental Corps: A struggle for acceptance, 1901-1919.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link. (This study does not seem to have been formally published; WorldCat is uncertain of its publication date.)

1999

#10315

Against the odds: Blacks in the profession of medicine in the United States.

1999

#13080

Early black American leaders in nursing: Architects for integration and quality. (National League for Nursing Series).

2000 –2002

#8081

An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1900. Vol. 2: Race, medicine and health care in the United States 1900-2000.

2000

#13883

NDA II. The story of America's second National Dental Association.

2002

#8011

African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.

2007

#9976

African American folk healing.

2007

#10371

Race & medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America.

2017

#9907

Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.

2022

#14059

Masters of health: Racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools.