Article ID: CBB000930714

Race and Medical Practice in Kansas City's Free Dispensary (2008)

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Patient records from the Kansas City Free Dispensary, 1906--1912, provide material for a case study of race in early twentieth-century medicine. The dispensary was a free, racially integrated medical clinic operated for educational purposes by the University of Kansas. Little historical work has been done examining the role of race in routine medical practice. Medical records give insight to the development of durable clinical habits and rules of thumb. Practitioners at the Kansas City Free Dispensary showed clear racial inequities in their care, for example in the treatment of pain, but they did not acknowledge or explain their practices, although the necessary rhetoric and justifications lay close at hand. The author speculates that the disavowal of scientific racism in medicine in decades to follow may have done little to dislodge habits that became embedded in informal clinical judgments. Keywords: medical practice, scientific racism, race, African Americans, Jews, dispensary, Kansas City, patient records

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Description “The dispensary was a free, racially integrated medical clinic operated for educational purposes by the University of Kansas.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Doyle, Dennis
Layne, Priscilla
Natalie Lira
Eva Jansen
Mendes, Gabriel N.
Jacqueline D. Antonovich
Concepts
Medicine and race
Racism
African Americans and science
African Americans
Clinics
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
New York City (New York, U.S.)
South Carolina (U.S.)
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
St. Louis (Missouri, U.S.)
Missouri (U.S.)
Institutions
Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic
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