The American medical association and race

RB Baker - AMA Journal of Ethics, 2014 - journalofethics.ama-assn.org
“Race” has been a four-letter word in the United States for almost four centuries. It earned
that status in 1619 when Dutch traders sold the first African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia …

Black physicians and the struggle for civil rights: lessons from the Mississippi experience: part 1: the forces for and against change

RD Deshazo, R Smith, LB Skipworth - The American Journal of Medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
The roles of black physicians in the South in the period leading up to the Civil Rights Act of
1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 have not been fully disclosed. In Mississippi and …

The medical committee for human rights

J Dittmer - AMA Journal of Ethics, 2014 - journalofethics.ama-assn.org
The Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in New York in the spring of 1964
as a support group for civil rights workers in Mississippi. That summer upwards of a …

The backgrounds and outcomes of allopathic medical school applicants: Exploring stratification and inequality

ST Nakae - 2014 - search.proquest.com
A career in medicine remains one of the most rigorous and arduous journeys in higher
education. The time and cost to train coupled with the academic and extracurricular …

Richard Francis Jones—Opening doors and diversifying the urologic workforce: a pioneer in the training of African Urologic Surgeons in North America

TM Downs, W Rayford, DE Davis, SY Nakada - Urology, 2014 - goldjournal.net
(Payne) Jones. The second of 3 children, he graduated from the Armstrong Technical High
School in 1914. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Howard University in …

Culture, race and ethnicity in US psychiatry

CC Bell, DF McBride - Critical Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
This chapter explores the historical context of race relations in Aotearoa New Zealand and
discusses the issues and concerns related to the negative statistics for Maori people. It …

Race and the History of the Medical Profession

R Baker - The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The modern concept of race was initially a classificatory concept introduced by the famous
eighteenth‐century Swedish classifier of flora and fauna, the physician and botanist Carl …

The creation of the King/Drew Medical Complex and the politics of public memory

DG Simon - 2014 - search.proquest.com
In the aftermath of the1965 Watts Uprising, Martin Luther King Jr., General Hospital and the
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Willowbrook, California were created …