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"No Struggle, No Fight, No Court Battle": The 1948 Desegregation of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine
In 1948, over 30 percent of the approved medical schools in the United States excluded black students. However, on September 10, 1948, the University of Arkansas School of Medicine became the first Southern medical school to desegregate when Edith Mae Irby matriculated. Her admission occurred without incident. There were no jeering white mob, no court action, and no federal troops. Irby's admission had its roots in a successful legal campaign launched by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to eradicate racial inequalities in professional and graduate education. A confluence of factors led the Uni...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - June 25, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gamble, V. N. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

"They Increase in Beauty and Elegance": Transforming Cadavers and the Epistemology of Dissection in Early Nineteenth-Century American Medical Education
This paper investigates the origins of the practice of dissection in American medical education in order to both understand the function of dissection in medical education and challenge conventional wisdom about that function. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American medical schools increasingly made human dissection a crucial part of their curricula, privileging use of the human cadaver over any other anatomical model. In this paper, I break apart the claims that American physicians made at that time regarding the unique pedagogic usefulness of the cadaver, and I juxtapose those claims against the r...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - June 25, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ponce, R. N. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

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Happy Pills in America from Miltown to Prozac
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 4, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Higby, G. J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Bleeding Disease: Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 4, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Nollan, R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Public Health: The Development of a Discipline, Twentieth-Century Challenges
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 4, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Michael, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Nazi Symbiosis: Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 4, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tent, J. F. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890-1930
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 4, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Myers, C. H. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 4, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kollmer Horton, M. E. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 4, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Rogers, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

On the Field of Mercy: Women Medical Volunteers from the Civil War to the First World War
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 4, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Dalgo, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves, Medicine and Power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 4, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Williamson, S. L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 4, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Holmes, F. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research