Facets

1883 CE

#14145

A book of medical discourse in two parts. Part first: Creating of the cause, prevention, and cure of infantile bowel complains, from birth to the close of the teething period, or till after the fifth year. Part second: Containing miscellaneous information concerning the life and growth of beings; the beginning of womanhood; also, the cause, prevention, and cure of many of the most distressing compains of women and youth of both sexes.

Crumpler was the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive.

1835 CE

#3440.1

A case of introsussception in which an operation was successfully resorted to…in December, 1831.

First operation for intussusception in the United States, performed in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The patient was a negro slave; the operation was a complete success. Reported by Wilson’s pupil, W.W. Thompson.

1987 CE

#5813.15

A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,

1794 CE

#5453.1

A narrative of the proceedings of the black people during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures thrown upon them in some late publications.

A refutation of slights by Matthew Carey in his Short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia (1793; No. 5451) to the important contributions of black people, many of whom served as nurses and…

1986 CE

#7957

A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.

Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.

2000 CE

#7976

A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

1793 CE

#5451

A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: With a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States.

Carey was a Philadelphia publisher and economist rather than a physician. In this little book, which passed through four editions in a few months, Carey left a graphic description of the great yellow fever epidemic of…

1820 CE

#7055

A treatise on the diseases of Negroes, as they occur in the island of Jamaica: with observations on the country remedies.

Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine, Internet Archive, at this link.

2002 CE

#8011

African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.

2016 CE

#9554

African American doctors of World War I: The lives of 104 volunteers.

2007 CE

#9976

African American folk healing.

2014 CE

#7754

African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.

Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War.

1998 CE

#12553

African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.

2007 CE

#7753

African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.

1999 CE

#9224

African-American dental surgeons and the U.S. Army Dental Corps: A struggle for acceptance, 1901-1919.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link. (This study does not seem to have been formally published; WorldCat is uncertain of its publication date.)

1994 CE

#9424

African-American medical pioneers.

1987 CE

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1999 CE

#10315

Against the odds: Blacks in the profession of medicine in the United States.

1918 CE

#8821

American Negro slavery: A survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime.

Incudes information on health and medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1803 CE

#5266

An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone; to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them. 2 vols.

In his travels in Africa, Winterbottom, physician to the Colony of Sierra Leone (now Republic of Sierra Leone) on the west coast of Africa, saw sleeping sickness, which he described in vol. 2, pp. 29-31, as a species …

1944 CE

#8385

An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.

Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2000 CE–2002 CE

#8081

An 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.

1764 CE

#9509

An essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces: To which are added some hints on the management, &c. of negroes.

Though the title suggests tropical medicine in general, this work mainly concerns the selection and medical care of slaves. Digital facsimile of the second edition (Edinburgh, 1802) expanded "with practical notes and …

1998 CE

#14153

Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor

"Anderson Ruffin Abbott, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canad…

2003 CE

#7956

Another dimension to the black diaspora: Diet, disease and racism

1981 CE

#8091

Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…

2000 CE

#9322

Biodiversity and native America. Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens.

2011 CE

#10328

Biographical dictionary of American physicians of African ancestry, 1800-1920.

2006 CE

#8090

Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.

1998 CE

#12572

Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.

2010 CE

#8085

Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.

1989 CE

#8087

Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.

1990 CE

#8754

Blacks in science and medicine.

1971 CE

#11665

Blacks, medical schools and society.

A study of the trends in black enrollments in the nation’s medical schools, and various public and higher education factors that limited the supply of black physicians in America through the 1960s.

2011 CE

#9625

Body and soul: The Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination.

2018 CE

#11664

Caring for equality: A history of African American health and healthcare.

1977 CE

#9288

Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.

2009 CE

#13029

Dermatology for skin of color.

"... the first comprehensive reference for this subspecialty, ranging from the historic and cultural to the clinical and basic science components....More than 600 full-color photographs of preoperative and postoperati…

1985 CE

#8820

Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.

2001 CE

#10335

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.

"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…

1999 CE

#13080

Early black American leaders in nursing: Architects for integration and quality. (National League for Nursing Series).

1877 CE

#8980

Early recollections and life of Dr. James Still.

Still's autobiography is probably the first biography or autobiography of an African American physician. "James Still, medical doctor and herbalist, was born on April 9, 1812 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Still wa…

1983 CE

#8082

Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.

2007 CE

#7056

Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.

1973 CE

#8136

Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.

Digital facsimile from http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/ at this link.

1997 CE

#8273

Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.

1984 CE

#10327

History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.

2008 CE

#10798

Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.

1995 CE

#8086

Making a place for ourselves: The Black hospital movement 1920-1945.

2022 CE

#14059

Masters of health: Racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools.