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History of Black People & Medicine & Biology (63)

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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)
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)
1951The health of slaves on southern plantations.
POSTELL, William Dosite (1908 – 1982)
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.
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 – )
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)
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.
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
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 – )
2002Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.
FETT, Sharla M.
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.
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 – )
2008Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.
HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
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.
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