Facets

1951 CE

#6846

The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded configurations of the polypeptide chain.

Pauling, his crystallographer R. B. Corey, and African-American physicist and chemist H.R. Branson announced the α-helix, a principal structural feature of proteins. Digital facsimile from the National Academy o…

1896 CE

#13882

The surgical peculiarities of the American negro. A statistical inquiry based upon the records of the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, LA., Decennium 1884-'94.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

2007 CE

#12584

The works of James McCune Smith: Black intellectual and abolitionist. Edited by John Stauffer. Forward by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Smith "was the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. After his return to the United States, he became the first African America…

1952 CE

#14100

Tissue culture studies of the proliferative capacity of cervical carcinoma and normal epithelium.

A cell biologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Gey propagated the HeLa cell line from Henrietta Lacks' cervical tumor. This cell line, which maintained a continuous growth phase, was the first immortal human cell line to…

2020 CE

#13725

To make the wounded whole: The African American struggle against HIV/AIDS.

2018 CE

#10755

To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987.

2000 CE

#12328

Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.

2022 CE

#14150

Under the skin: The hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation.

"In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between…

2003 CE

#7057

Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Edited by B. D. Smedley, A. Y. Stith, and A. R. Nelson.

"Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may con…

2007 CE

#10250

United States Army aeromedical support to African American fliers, 1941-1949: The Tuskegee flight surgeons.

Digital facsimile from airforemedicine.af.mil at this link.

1788 CE

#13163

Voyages 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....

The final section addresses maladies affecting the residents of Saint-Domingue. Unlike many of his contemporaries Bourgeois assiduously recorded the medical practices of the enslaved and subjugated African and Indigen…

2018 CE

#12878

W. E. B. Du Bois's data portraits. Visualizing black America. The color line at the turn of the twentieth century. Edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert.

2002 CE

#9624

Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.