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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY

Exhibiting 107 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1985Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
SHERIDAN, Richard B. (1918 – )
1986A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – )
1986The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.
CARNEGIE, Mary Elizabeth (1916 – 2008)
1986Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas
THOMAS, Vivien Theodore (1910 – 1985)
1987A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,
ORGAN, Claude H. Jr. (1926 – 2005) KOSIBA, Margaret M.
1987Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.
LAGUERRE, Michael S. (1943 – )
1989Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.
HINE, Darlene Clark (1947 – )
1990Blacks in science and medicine.
SAMMONS, Vivian Lucille Ovelton (1925 – 2016)
1994African-American medical pioneers.
EPPS, Charles Harry Jr. (1930 – ) JOHNSON, Davis G. VAUGHAN, Audrey L.
1994Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.
FONTENOT, Wonda L.
1995Making a place for ourselves: The Black hospital movement 1920-1945.
GAMBLE, Vanessa Northington
GAMBLE, Vanessa Northington
1995Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950.
SMITH, Susan L.
1998Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.
BANKOLE-MEDINA, Katherine
1998African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.
FRASER, Gertrude Jacinta
1998Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.
WATSON, Wilbur H. (1938 – 1998)
1998Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor
ABBOTT, Anderson Ruffin (1837 – 1913)
ABBOTT, Anderson Ruffin (1837 – 1913)
1999African-American dental surgeons and the U.S. Army Dental Corps: A struggle for acceptance, 1901-1919.
HYSON, John Miller Jr. (1927 – 2009)
1999Against the odds: Blacks in the profession of medicine in the United States.
WATSON, Wilbur H. (1938 – 1998)
1999Early black American leaders in nursing: Architects for integration and quality. (National League for Nursing Series).
DAVIS, Althea T.
2000A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.
STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – ) HAINES, Michael R.
2000​–2002An 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.
BYRD, W. Michael CLAYTON, Linda A.
2000Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.
REVERBY, Susan Mokotoff (1946 – )
2000NDA II. The story of America's second National Dental Association.
DUMMETT, Clifton O. (1919 – 2011) DUMMETT, Lois Doyle
2001Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.
WAILOO, Keith A. (1962 – )
2002African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.
BAILEY, Eric J. (1958 – )
2002Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.
FETT, Sharla M.
2003Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Edited by B. D. Smedley, A. Y. Stith, and A. R. Nelson.
SMEDLEY, Brian D. STITH, Adrienne Y. NELSON, Alan R.
2003Another dimension to the black diaspora: Diet, disease and racism
KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
2006Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
SCHWARTZ, Marie Jenkins (1946 – )
2006Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.
WASHINGTON, Harriet A.
WASHINGTON, Harriet A.
2007Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.
WILLIAMS, Richard Allen (1936 – )
2007African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.
COVEY, Herbert C. (1949 – )
2007African American folk healing.
MITCHEM, Stephanie
MITCHEM, Stephanie
2007United States Army aeromedical support to African American fliers, 1941-1949: The Tuskegee flight surgeons.
JONES, David R. GROSS, Leroy P. MARCHBANKS-ROBINSON, Roslyn
2007Race & medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America.
SAVITT, Todd L. (1943 – )
2007The works of James McCune Smith: Black intellectual and abolitionist. Edited by John Stauffer. Forward by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
SMITH, James McCune (1813 – 1865)
SMITH, James McCune (1813 – 1865)
STAUFFER, John
STAUFFER, John
2008Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.
HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
2009Dermatology for skin of color.
KELLY, Arthur Paul (1938 – 2014) TAYLOR, Susan C.
2009The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.
DITTMER, John (1939 – )
2010Practicing medicine in a black regiment: The Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts, edited by Richard M. Reid.
WILDER, Burt Green (1841 – 1925)
WILDER, Burt Green (1841 – 1925) REID, Richard M.
2010Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.
WARD, Thomas J. Jr.
WARD, Thomas J. Jr.
2011Body and soul: The Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination.
NELSON, Alondra (1968 – )
NELSON, Alondra (1968 – )
2011Biographical dictionary of American physicians of African ancestry, 1800-1920.
BECKFORD, Geraldine Rhoades
2012Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.
WEINER, Marli F. (1953 – 2009) HOUGH, Mayzie
2012The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
THOMAS, James G. Jr. WILSON, Charles Reagan (1948 – )
2014African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.
BUTTS, Heather
2016African American doctors of World War I: The lives of 104 volunteers.
FISHER, W. Douglas (1938 – ) BUCKLEY, Joann H.
2017Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
2017Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.
HOGARTH, Rana A.
2017The price for their pound of flesh: The value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation.
BERRY, Diana Ramey