Article ID: CBB800413843

The community of Black women physicians, 1864–1941: Trends in background, education, and training (2021)

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We identified nearly 180 Black women who earned medical degrees prior to the start of the Second World War and found information regarding their family and social connections, premedical and medical educations, and internship experience or lack thereof for many of these women. Through their collective history, we observed large-scale trends, especially regarding the importance of “separatist” medical education and declining medical school attendance among African American women in the 1910s as medicine became an increasingly exclusionary profession. While our research uncovered trends specific to Black women physicians, the implications of our research can be applied far more widely to other historically marginalized scientific practitioners. This research reminds us of the longstanding and shifting presence of Black women in science and medicine, despite the enduring popular belief that white men represent who participates in science, both historically and today.

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Authors & Contributors
Kelly, Laura
Jo Manton
Martin Robert
Yong-suk Jung
Chandra, Gautam
Zalashik, Rakefet
Journals
Canadian Journal of Health History/Revue canadienne d’histoire de la santé
Women's History Review
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Social History of Medicine
Science in Context
Pharmacy in History
Publishers
University of Notre Dame
University of Minnesota Press
Routledge
Manchester University Press
John Donald
University of California, Berkeley
Concepts
Women in medicine
Medical education and teaching
Professions and professionalization
Medicine and society
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
People
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
Lister, Joseph, Baron
Bennett, John Hughes
Abbott, Maude E.
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Ireland
United States
Birmingham (England)
Edinburgh
Puerto Rico
Institutions
University of Paris V
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
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