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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY

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1764An essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces: To which are added some hints on the management, &c. of negroes.
GRAINGER, James (1721 – 1766)
1776Observations sur les maladies des nègres, leurs causes, leurs traitemens et les moyens de les prévenir.
DAZILLE, Jean Barthélémy (1733 – 1812)
1785Observations générales sur les maladies des climats chauds, leurs causes, leur traitement, et les moyens de les prévenir.
DAZILLE, Jean Barthélémy (1733 – 1812)
1788Observations sur le tétanos; Ses différences, ses causes, ses symptômes, avec le traitement de cette maladie & les moyens de la prévenir. Précédées d'un discours sur les moyens de perfectionner la médecine-pratique sous la zone torride. Suivies d'observations sur la santé des femmes enceintes dans ces régions; leurs maladies aux différentes époques de la grossesse; l'accouchement & les suites; la conservation des nouveau-nés jusqu'à l'adolescence. Terminées par le rapprochement des vices & des abus des hôpitaux d'entre les tropiques, & les moyens d'y remédier. Par M. Dazille. Pour servir de développement & de suite à ce que cet auteur a écrit du tétanos dans ses ouvrages sur les maladies des nègrse [sic], & sur les maladies des climats chauds.
DAZILLE, Jean Barthélémy (1733 – 1812)
1788Voyages intéressans dans différentes colonies françaises, espagnoles, anglaises, &c; contenant des observations importantes relatives à ces contrées; & un mémoire sur les maladies les plus communes à Saint-Domingue, leurs remèdes, & le moyen de s'en préserver moralement & phisiquement: Avec des anecdotes singulières, qui n'avaient jamais été publiés....
BOURGEOIS, Nicolas-Louis (1710 – 1776)
1793A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: With a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States.
CAREY, Mathew (1760 – 1839)
CAREY, Mathew (1760 – 1839)
1794A narrative of the proceedings of the black people during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures thrown upon them in some late publications.
JONES, Absolom (1746 – 1818)
ALLEN, Richard (1760 – 1831)
ALLEN, Richard (1760 – 1831)
CLARKSON, Matthew (1733 – 1800)
CLARKSON, Matthew (1733 – 1800)
1803An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone; to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them. 2 vols.
WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)
WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)
1803Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of negro slaves in the sugar colonies
COLLINS, David
1807The planter's and mariner's medical companion: treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. To which are subjoined a dispensatory, shewing how to prepare and administer family medicines, and a glossary giving an explanation of technical terms.
EWELL, James (1773 – 1832)
1820A treatise on the diseases of Negroes, as they occur in the island of Jamaica: with observations on the country remedies.
THOMSON, James
1832Observations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York; called the Asiatic or spasmodic cholera; with advice to the planters of the South, for the medical treatment of their slaves.
YATES, Christopher C. (1778 – 1848)
1835A case of introsussception in which an operation was successfully resorted to…in December, 1831.
WILSON, John R. W.
1854The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered: An address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854.
DOUGLASS, Frederick (1818 – 1895)
DOUGLASS, Frederick (1818 – 1895)
1877Early recollections and life of Dr. James Still.
STILL, James (1812 – 1882)
STILL, James (1812 – 1882)
1883A book of medical discourse in two parts. Part first: Creating of the cause, prevention, and cure of infantile bowel complains, from birth to the close of the teething period, or till after the fifth year. Part second: Containing miscellaneous information concerning the life and growth of beings; the beginning of womanhood; also, the cause, prevention, and cure of many of the most distressing compains of women and youth of both sexes.
CRUMPLER, Rebecca Lee (1831 – 1895)
CRUMPLER, Rebecca Lee (1831 – 1895)
1896Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro.
HOFFMAN, Frederick Ludwig (1865 – 1946)
HOFFMAN, Frederick Ludwig (1865 – 1946)
1896On the pigment of the negro's skin and hair.
ABEL, John Jacob (1857 – 1938)
ABEL, John Jacob (1857 – 1938) DAVIS, Walter S.
1896The surgical peculiarities of the American negro. A statistical inquiry based upon the records of the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, LA., Decennium 1884-'94.
MATAS, Rudolph (1860 – 1957)
MATAS, Rudolph (1860 – 1957)
1906The health and physique of the Negro American: report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University: together with the Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on May the 29th, 1906.
DU BOIS, William Edward Burghardt (1868 – 1964)
1912The Negro in medicine.
KENNEY, John Andrew Sr. (1874 – 1950)
KENNEY, John Andrew Sr. (1874 – 1950)
1918American Negro slavery: A survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime.
PHILLIPS, Ulrich Bonnell (1877 – 1934)
PHILLIPS, Ulrich Bonnell (1877 – 1934)
1929Pathfinders: A history of the progress of colored graduate nurses. With biographies of many prominent nurses.
THOMS, Adah Belle (1870 – 1943)
THOMS, Adah Belle (1870 – 1943)
1933Some notes on the history of the National Medical Association.
KENNEY, John Andrew Sr. (1874 – 1950)
KENNEY, John Andrew Sr. (1874 – 1950)
1934Roentgen visualization of the placenta.
SNOW, William (1898 – ) POWELL, Clilian Bethany (1894 – 1977)
1934The negro professional man and the community with special emphasis on the physician and lawyer.
WOODSON, Carter Godwin (1875 – 1950)
WOODSON, Carter Godwin (1875 – 1950)
1934Meharry Medical College: A history.
ROMAN, Charles Victor (1864 – 1934)
1939The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.
COBB, William Montague (1904 – 1990)
1941Report of the Blood Transfusion Association concerning the Project for Supplying Blood Plasma to England, which has been carried on jointly with the American Red Cross from August, 1940, to January, 1941. Narrative account of work and medical report.
DREW, Charles Richard (1904 – 1950)
DREW, Charles Richard (1904 – 1950) & et al.
1944An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.
MYRDAL, Karl Gunnar (1898 – 1987) STERNER, Richard (1901 – 1978) ROSE, Arnold Marshall (1918 – 1968)
1947Medical care and the plight of the Negro.
COBB, William Montague (1904 – 1990)
1949Sickle cell anemia, a molecular disease.
PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994)
PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994)
ITANO, Harvey Akio (1920 – 2010)
ITANO, Harvey Akio (1920 – 2010) SINGER, Seymour Jonathan (1924 – 2017) WELLS, Ibert C. (1921 – 2011)
1949The Negro in the medical profession.
WALKER, Helen Edith
1951The health of slaves on southern plantations.
POSTELL, William Dosite (1908 – 1982)
1951The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded configurations of the polypeptide chain.
PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994)
PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994) COREY, Robert Brainard (1897 – 1971)
BRANSON, Herman Russell (1914 – 1995)
BRANSON, Herman Russell (1914 – 1995)
1952Tissue culture studies of the proliferative capacity of cervical carcinoma and normal epithelium.
GEY, George Otto (1899 – 1970) COFFMAN, Ward D. KUBICEK, Mary T.
LACKS, Henrietta (1920 – 1951)
LACKS, Henrietta (1920 – 1951)
1955The Negro in science.
TAYLOR, Julius Henry (1914 – 2011)
TAYLOR, Julius Henry (1914 – 2011)
1958Negroes and medicine.
REITZES, Dietrich C. (1917 – 1998)
1961No time for prejudice: A story of the integration of negroes in nursing in the United States.
STAUPERS, Mabel Keaton
1967The history of the Negro in medicine.
MORAIS, Herbert Montfort (1905 – 1970)
1971Blacks, medical schools and society.
CURTIS, James L.
1973Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.
TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY AD HOC ADVISORY PANEL
1975Textbook of Black-related diseases. Edited by Richard A. Williams.
WILLIAMS, Richard Allen (1936 – )
1977Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.
FRANKEL, Barbara
1977Medical history of a Civil War regiment: Disease in the sixty-fifth United States Colored Infantry.
STEINER, Paul Eby (1902 – 1978)
1978Medicine and slavery. The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia.
SAVITT, Todd L. (1943 – )
1981Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
JONES, James H. (1943 – )
1983Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.
SUMMERVILLE, James
ELAM, Lloyd Charles (1928 – 2008)
ELAM, Lloyd Charles (1928 – 2008)
1984The Caribbean slave: A biological history.
KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
1984History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.
RAWLS, George H. (1928 – )