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Secret Doctors

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313064849
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Secret Doctors written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-08-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 indigenous traditions, and the French migration and Black Haitian freed and enslaved population influx during the 1700s and 1800s. Fontenot finds strong ties between rural Louisiana practices and Haitian and West African medicine. The ethnographer, a native of the region where she did her research, is respected among local practicing secret doctors and is able to give a unique insider's view. Aside from documenting a rare treasure of our American cultural diversity, this study has a wider purpose in the field of health practices and policy. The high cost of Western medicine, lack of access to quality care, and the patient-doctor ratio are areas of major national concern, and rural residents and people of color are recognized to be the most at-risk populations. The alternative health-care system presented here can strengthen mainstream medicine's understanding of such patient populations while preserving valuable knowledge of healing plants and culturally sensitive therapies.

African American Doctoring

Author : Marilyn Patterson-James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book African American Doctoring written by Marilyn Patterson-James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Medical Doctoring: A Snapshot in History provides some interesting information about the profession of the African American doctor's struggles and successes. There is information about the history of medicine - ancient, the beginnings of the practice in the United States. To address the many medical education issues, including educational standards for medical doctors, the American Medical Association (AMA) was established in 1847. Then, the United States was torn apart by the Civil War from April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865, with extensive health care issues requiring medical doctors. The United States formed the Freedmen's Bureau on March 3, 1865 to address the medical needs of the former slaves.Despite the good intentions of the Freedmen's Bureau, medical treatment of the freedmen was severely deficient. Most southern white doctors and nurses would not treat freedmen. By 1872, Congress abandoned the programs of the Bureau. Yet, African American Medical Doctoring: A Snapshot in History includes information about those African American Civil War physicians who practiced their profession in the Union Army; and later one of these military physicians would head a VA hospital.The medical school era began to flourish in the early 1900s, which included the establishment of at least 11 medical schools for AfricanAmericans between 1868 and 1904. The Johns Hopkins University School t Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland opened in 1893 and served as the standard barrier for medical education and as a medical research university. With medical school standards put in place, many sub-standard medial schools closed, including most of the African American medical schools, known as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).By 1900, 2,500 students graduated from medical schools, with almost all of them white males. These developments to set standards for medical doctors' certifications (in addition to being the first of the professional professions to require licensing) were led by Abraham Flexner and Sir William Osler, which affected the medical schools in the United States and Canada. Information about the mentioned individuals is discussed in the book.Before concluding this study, there is a brief history about the HBCUs - yesterday and today; a brief discussion about the "Compromise" speech by Booker T. Washington at the Atlanta exposition and its influence on the socio-economic growth of African American physicians in the United States; information about African American collegiate and professional fraternity founders who were medical doctors; the pioneering physicians involved in the establishment of the National Medical Association (NMA).The study ends with an analysis of efforts to increase the number of African American medical doctors; and, makes several recommendations for ways to increase the number of African American medical doctors in proportion to the percentage of their population in the United States.

Doctoring Freedom

Author : Gretchen Long
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835838
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Doctoring Freedom written by Gretchen Long and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a

Working Cures

Author : Sharla M. Fett
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807853788
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book Working Cures written by Sharla M. Fett and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.

Secret Doctoring

Author : Wonda L. Fontenot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Secret Doctoring written by Wonda L. Fontenot and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beside the Troubled Waters

Author : Sonnie W. Hereford
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081731721X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Beside the Troubled Waters written by Sonnie W. Hereford and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A black southern doctor offers a gripping memoir of his childhood in Alabama, his efforts to overcome racism in the white medical community, his participation in the civil rights movement and his problems with the Medicaid program and state medical authorities"--Provided by publisher.

The Trials and Tribulations of an African American Doctor

Author : Roscoe B. Martin
Publisher : 5 Sisters Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780981778495
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book The Trials and Tribulations of an African American Doctor written by Roscoe B. Martin and published by 5 Sisters Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-22 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of truth. A true depiction of the segregated South, and it's injuisticees toward the African American citizens. The prevalent storyline of the book reveals the Slave Mentality of some African Americans in the position of authority who like the White man, abused their authority to please themselves and to keep other African Americans in their place. A must read for our future generation. A notable piece of African American History.

Black Man in a White Coat

Author : Damon Tweedy, M.D.
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250044642
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Black Man in a White Coat written by Damon Tweedy, M.D. and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK SELECTION • A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE BOOK SELECTION One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans When Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy soon meets a professor who bluntly questions whether he belongs in medical school, a moment that crystallizes the challenges he will face throughout his career. Making matters worse, in lecture after lecture the common refrain for numerous diseases resounds, "More common in blacks than in whites." Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine. As Tweedy transforms from student to practicing physician, he discovers how often race influences his encounters with patients. Through their stories, he illustrates the complex social, cultural, and economic factors at the root of many health problems in the black community. These issues take on greater meaning when Tweedy is himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far more common among black people. In this powerful, moving, and deeply empathic book, Tweedy explores the challenges confronting black doctors, and the disproportionate health burdens faced by black patients, ultimately seeking a way forward to better treatment and more compassionate care.

Doctoring Freedom

Author : Margaret Geneva Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Doctoring Freedom written by Margaret Geneva Long and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An American Health Dilemma

Author : W. Michael Byrd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135960488
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book An American Health Dilemma written by W. Michael Byrd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty. Virtually every part of this story revolves around race. More than 50 years after the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 classic about race relations in the USA, An American Health Dilemma presents a comprehensive and groundbreaking history and social analysis of race, race relations and the African-American medical and public health experience. Beginning with the origins of western medicine and science in Egypt, Greece and Rome the authors explore the relationship between race, medicine, and health care from the precursors of American science and medicine through the days of the slave trade with the harrowing middle passage and equally deadly breaking-in period through the Civil War and the gains of reconstruction and the reversals caused by Jim Crow laws. It offers an extensive examination of the history of intellectual and scientific racism that evolved to give sanction to the mistreatment, medical abuse, and neglect of African Americans and other non-white people. Also included are biographical portraits of black medical pioneers like James McCune Smith, the first African American to earn a degree from a European university, and anecdotal vignettes,like the tragic story of "the Hottentot Venus", which illustrate larger themes. An American Health Dilemma promises to become an irreplaceable and essential look at African-American and medical history and will provide an invaluable baseline for future exploration of race and racism in the American health system.

Segregated Doctoring

Author : Leslie J. Pollard Sr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641111621
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Segregated Doctoring written by Leslie J. Pollard Sr. and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1902 and 1952, Augusta, Georgia, attracted thirty-four black physicians. The earliest African American physicians began arriving in Augusta in the mid-1880s, when race relations were still evolving from the Reconstruction era. At that time, they were accorded privileges at the city's black public hospital. By 1902, racial attitudes had solidified, and black physicians were excluded from the African American hospital, a decision that endured for almost half a century. Legalized segregation forged an inextricable link between medical care and racial discrimination and provided the social context for African American exploitation. Not only were black physicians denied access to public hospitals, but they had limited opportunities for continuing education and were excluded from the corridors of power within the medical profession. They faced skeptics on both sides of the color line, albeit for different reasons, while competing with white physicians to provide medical care for the black community. They held the highest status in the black community and played a vital role in the community's response to segregation through racial solidarity and institutional development. Segregated Doctoring analyzes the structure of African American medical practice in the context of segregation and its accompanying inequities. It serves as an important corrective to the neglected story of black Augusta physicians and is an important addition to available scholarly literature that explores the city's rich medical history.

A Doctor’S Prescription for Health Care Reform

Author : Rahn Kennedy Bailey
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449787827
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book A Doctor’S Prescription for Health Care Reform written by Rahn Kennedy Bailey and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Medical Association has championed efforts in eliminating health care disparities and stigma, while promoting reform since its inception. As a physician and educator, I know that information on these subjects is vital for todays medical school students to have at their fingertips. I believe this book can help make the entire medical community more responsive to these concerns. Cedric Bright, MD Assistant Dean of Admissions Director of Special Programs University of North Carolina School of Medicine Immediate Past NMA President, 2011 This book goes a long way to exposing the stigmas and misconceptions about ethnic minorities and other diverse groups that leads to poor health outcomes. Dr. Bailey is uniquely qualified to define the problems inherent in our health care system that perpetuates these stereotypes and to propose solutions. Dr. Bailey starts a conversation that America must finish if everyone is to get quality health care. Michael LeNoir, MD CEO, Ethnic Health America Network Director, Bay Area Multicultural Clinical Research & Prevention Center Incoming NMA President, 2013

African American Healers

Author : Clinton Cox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Healers written by Clinton Cox and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout American history, determined African Americans havebecome healers. As doctors, nurses, and scientists, they have madevital contributions to the health of the American people. The road to attaining the knowledge these healers longed for was adifficult one. But they kept going, despite the obstacles. Thesehealers would not only mend the ills of the sick, but would alsofound schools, build hospitals, and fight for equal treatment aswell as for the rights of their patients. These true and inspiring stories of some of the great AfricanAmerican healers show you how: Dr. James Durham, the first African American doctor, saved thelives of more yellow fever victims than most doctors in colonialPhiladelphia. * Susie King Taylor began nursing both black and white soldiers atthe age of thirteen when the Civil War began and cared for themthroughout the war. * Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who founded Provident Hospital inChicago, saved a patient's life by performing the first successfulopen-heart operation. * Dr. Justina Laurena Ford, the first black female physician in theRocky Mountains, treated patients of all races in their homes, andbecame fluent in eight languages. * Dr. Charles Drew invented the blood bank and discovered new usesfor plasma. * Dr. Benjamin Carson blazed a trail in the amazing field of brainsurgery. This outstanding collection brings to light these and dozens ofother exciting and surprising tales of the men and women ofmedicine who lived their dreams.

Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-twentieth-century America

Author : Todd Lee Savitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-twentieth-century America written by Todd Lee Savitt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were seen as chattel: some white physicians claimed that African Americans had physiological and anatomical differences that made them well suited for slavery. These attitudes continued into the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. In Race and Medicine, historian Todd Savitt presents revised and updated versions of his seminal essays on the medical history of African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in the South. This collection examines a variety of aspects of African American medical history, including health and illnesses, medical experimentation, early medical schools and medical professionals, and slave life insurance. Savitt examines the history of sickle-cell anemia and identifies the first two patients with the disease noted in medical literature. He proposes an explanation of why the disease was not well known in the general African American population for at least 50 years after its discovery. Charleston Low Country and not elsewhere in the country. Other topics Savitt explores include African American medical schools, the formation of an African American medical profession, and SIDS among Virginia slaves. With its new research data and interpretations of existing materials, Race and Medicine will be a valuable resource to those interested in the history of medicine and African American history as well as to the medical community.

African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.

Author : Heather Butts
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625851898
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book African American Medicine in Washington, D.C. written by Heather Butts and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the black doctors and nurses who tended to Civil War soldiers in the capital. Just as African Americans fought in defense of the Union during the Civil War, African American nurses, doctors, and surgeons worked to heal those soldiers. In the nation’s capital, these brave healthcare workers created a medical infrastructure for African Americans, by African Americans. Preeminent surgeon Alexander T. Augusta fought discrimination, visited President Lincoln, testified before Congress, and aided the war effort. Washington’s Freedmen’s Hospital was formed to serve the District’s growing free African American population, eventually becoming the Howard University Medical Center. These physicians would form the National Medical Association, the largest and oldest organization representing African American doctors and patients. This book recounts the heroic lives and work of Washington’s African American medical community during the Civil War.

Medicalizing Blackness

Author : Rana A. Hogarth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632888
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Medicalizing Blackness written by Rana A. Hogarth and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses and beyond. In this fascinating medical history, Rana A. Hogarth examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery. Hogarth refigures Atlantic slave societies as medical frontiers of knowledge production on the topic of racial difference. Rather than looking to their counterparts in Europe who collected and dissected bodies to gain knowledge about race, white physicians in Atlantic slaveholding regions created and tested ideas about race based on the contexts in which they lived and practiced. What emerges in sharp relief is the ways in which blackness was reified in medical discourses and used to perpetuate notions of white supremacy.

The Racial Divide in American Medicine

Author : Richard D. deShazo
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496817699
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Racial Divide in American Medicine written by Richard D. deShazo and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Richard D. deShazo, John Dittmer, Keydron K. Guinn, Lucius M. Lampton, Wilson F. Minor, Rosemary Moak, Sara B. Parker, Wayne J. Riley, Leigh Baldwin Skipworth, Robert Smith, and William F. Winter The Racial Divide in American Medicine documents the struggle for equity in health and health care by African Americans in Mississippi and the United States and the connections between what happened there and the national search for social justice in health care. Dr. Richard D. deShazo and the contributors to the volume trace the dark journey from a system of slave hospitals in the state, through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era, to the present day. They substantiate that current health disparities are directly linked to America’s history of separation, neglect, struggle, and disparities. Contributors reveal details of individual physicians’ journeys for recognition both as African Americans and as professionals in Mississippi. Despite discrimination by their white colleagues and threats of violence, a small but fearless group of African American physicians fought for desegregation of American medicine and society. For example, T. R. M. Howard, MD, in the all-black city of Mound Bayou led a private investigation of the Emmett Till murder that helped trigger the civil rights movement. Later, other black physicians risked their lives and practices to provide care for white civil rights workers during the civil rights movement. Dr. deShazo has assembled an accurate account of the lives and experiences of black physicians in Mississippi, one that gives full credit to the actions of these pioneers. Dr. deShazo’s introduction and the essays address ongoing isolation and distrust among black and white colleagues. This book will stimulate dialogue, apology, and reconciliation, with the ultimate goal of improving disparities in health and health care and addressing long-standing injustices in our country.