Facets

1981

#8091

Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…

1983

#8082

Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.

1984

#7053

The Caribbean slave: A biological history.

1984

#10327

History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.

1985

#8820

Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.

1986

#7957

A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.

Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.

1986

#8088

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

1986

#12376

Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas

Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.

1987

#5813.15

A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,

1987

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1989

#8087

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

1990

#8754

Blacks in science and medicine.

1994

#9424

African-American medical pioneers.

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…

1995

#8086

Making a place for ourselves: The Black hospital movement 1920-1945.

1995

#8089

Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950.

1997

#8273

Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.

1998

#8205

Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.

1998

#12553

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

1998

#12572

Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.

1998

#14153

Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor

"Anderson Ruffin Abbott, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canad…

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

#7976

A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

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

#9322

Biodiversity and native America. Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens.

2000

#12328

Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.

2000

#13883

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

2001

#10335

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.

"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…

2002

#8011

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

2002

#9624

Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.

2003

#7057

Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Edited by B. D. Smedley, A. Y. Stith, and A. R. Nelson.

"Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may con…

2003

#7956

Another dimension to the black diaspora: Diet, disease and racism

2006

#8090

Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.

2006

#8092

Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.

2007

#7056

Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.

2007

#7753

African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.

2007

#9976

African American folk healing.

2007

#10250

United States Army aeromedical support to African American fliers, 1941-1949: The Tuskegee flight surgeons.

Digital facsimile from airforemedicine.af.mil at this link.

2007

#10371

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

2007

#12584

The works of James McCune Smith: Black intellectual and abolitionist. Edited by John Stauffer. Forward by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Smith "was the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. After his return to the United States, he became the first African America…

2008

#10798

Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.

2009

#13029

Dermatology for skin of color.

"... the first comprehensive reference for this subspecialty, ranging from the historic and cultural to the clinical and basic science components....More than 600 full-color photographs of preoperative and postoperati…

2009

#13038

The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.

"... documents the history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), a group of health professionals who delivered health care to wounded protesters and victims of police violence during the Civil Rights Movem…

2010

#7752

Practicing medicine in a black regiment: The Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts, edited by Richard M. Reid.

Wilder was a Harvard-trained white physician assigned to one of the first African American regiments in the American Civil War.

2010

#8085

Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.

2011

#9625

Body and soul: The Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination.

2011

#10328

Biographical dictionary of American physicians of African ancestry, 1800-1920.

2012

#8206

Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.