Week 4 At-A-Glance

Required

Read

• McBride, David (2019) Caring for Equality: A History of African American Health and Healthcare, Rowman and Littlefield. Chapter 3: The Black Medical World. Course reserves or PDF here McBride Chapter 3.pdf Download McBride Chapter 3.pdf
    
• Frank Beardsley A History of Neglect: Health Care for Blacks and Mill Workers in the Twentieth Century South. Chapter 4 Black Physicians and their People 1900-1940 Course reserves or PDF here Beardsley Chapter 4.pdf Download Beardsley Chapter 4.pdf
    
• Primary Source:  W. E. B. Dubois, The Health and Physique of the Negro American (1906). Download or read on Hathi Trust here https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31970005141004&view=1up&seq=7 Links to an external site.

 

Assignments

Post in the discussion forum: How were women particularly vulnerable to racism in medicine and health care and what have been some long term consequences?