Some Further Reading on African-American Medical History

SOME FURTHER READING ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEDICAL HISTORY

Dr. Todd Savitt, Bullitt History of Medicine Club, February 9, 2005

Edward H. Beardsley. "Good-bye to Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Hospitals, 1945-70." Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 60 (1986), 367-386.

Edward H. Beardsley. A History of Neglect: Health Care for Blacks and Mill Workers in the Twentieth-Century South. Knoxville: Univ. of Tenn. Press, 1987.

Edward H. Beardsley. "Making Separate, Equal: Black Physicians and the Problems of Medical Segregation in the Pre-World War II South." Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 57 (1983), 382-396.

Helen Buckler. Doctor Dan: Pioneer in American Surgery. [Daniel Hale Williams]. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954.

M.E. Carnegie. The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing, 1854-1984. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1986.

Sharla M. Fett. Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2002.

Vanessa Northington Gamble. Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement, 1920-1945. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.

Vanessa Northington Gamble. “Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care.” American Journal of Public Health, 87 (1997), 1773-1778.

John S. Haller, Jr. Outcasts From Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900. Urbana: Univ. of Ill. Press, 1971.

Darlene Clark Hine. Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana Univ. Press, 1989.

James H. Jones. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. New York: Free Press, 1981.

Spencie Love. One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1996.

David McBride. Integrating the City of Medicine: Blacks in Philadelphia Health Care, 1910-1965. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1989.

David McBride. From TB to AIDS: Epidemics Among Urban Blacks Since 1900. Albany: State Univ. of N.Y. Press, 1991.

Kenneth R. Manning. Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1983.

Gloria Moldow. Women Doctors in Gilded-Age Washington: Race, Gender, and Professionalization. Urbana: Univ. of Ill. Press, 1987.

Herbert M. Morais. The History of the Negro in Medicine. New York: Publishers Company, 1967.

Claude H. Organ, Jr. and Margaret M. Kosiba, eds. A Century of Black Surgeons: The U.S.A. Experience. 2 vols. Norman, Oklahoma: Transcript Press, 1987.

Leslie J. Pollard. Complaint to the Lord: Historical Perspectives on the African American Elderly. Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania: Susquehanna Univ. Press, 1996.

P. Preston Reynolds. Durham’s Lincoln Hospital. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2001.

P. Preston Reynolds. Watts Hospital of Durham, N.C., 1895-1976. Durham, N.C., 1991.

Susan Reverby. Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2000.

Todd L. Savitt. Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia. Urbana: Univ. of Ill. Press, 1978.

Todd L. Savitt. "The Invisible Malady: Sickle Cell Anemia in America: 1910-1970." Journal of the National Medical Association, 73 (1981), 739-746.

Todd L. Savitt. "The Use of Blacks for Medical Experimentation and Demonstration in the Old South." Journal of Southern History, 48 (1982), 331-348.

Todd L. Savitt. "The Education of Physicians at Shaw University, 1882-1918: Problems of Quality and Quantity," in Jeffrey Crow and Flora Hatley, eds. Black Americans in North Carolina and the South. Chapel Hill: Univ. of N.C. Press, 1984, pp. 160-188.

Todd L. Savitt. "Abraham Flexner and the Black Medical Schools," in Barbara M. Barzansky and Norman Gevitz, eds., Flexner and the 1990s: Medical Education in the 20th Century (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992), 65-81.

Todd L. Savitt. "Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the New South." Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 61(1987), 507-540.

Todd L. Savitt. "Herrick's 1910 Case Report of Sickle Cell Anemia: The Rest of the Story." JAMA, 261 (1989), 266-271.

Todd L. Savitt. “‘A Journal of Our Own’: The Medical and Surgical Observer at the Beginnings of an African-American Medical Profession in Late 19th-Century America.” Journal of the National Medical Association, 88 (1996), 52-60, 115-122.

Todd L. Savitt. “Four African-American Proprietary Medical Colleges: 1888-1923,” Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences, 55 (2000), 203-255.

Susan L. Smith. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1959. Philadelphia: Univ of Penn. Press, 1995.

James Summerville. Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College. University, Alabama: Univ of Ala. Press, 1983.

Keith Wailoo, “Detecting 'Negro Blood': Black and White Identities and the Reconstruction of Sickle Cell Anemia,” in Wailoo, Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1997, pp.134-161.

Keith Wailoo. Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001.

Thomas J. Ward, Jr. Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South. Fayetteville: Univ of Ark. Press, 2003.

Charles E. Wynes. Charles Richard Drew: The Man and the Myth. Urbana: Univ of Ill. Press, 1988.