Black Americans

 

Subject Terms  --  Background and Context  --  Bibliographies  --  Biography  --  Archives and Manuscripts  --  Document Collections  --  Images   --  Periodicals --  Personal Accounts --  Statistics

For general sources see: 

Subject Terms

African Americans -- Health and hygiene
African Americans -- Medical care
Social medicine -- United States

Background and Context

 

Bibliographies

Black American health : an annotated bibliography, compiled by Mitchell F. Rice and Woodrow Jones, Jr. New York : Greenwood Press, 1987, 140 p.
http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990009322280203941/catalog

A history of selected diseases in the Black community : a working bibliography, by Lenwood G Davis. Monticello, Ill. : Council of Planning Librarians, 1976, 28 pages
HOLLIS Record
 
Health of black Americans from post reconstruction to integration, 1871-1960 : an annotated bibliography of contemporary sources, by Mitchell F. Rice and Woodrow Jones, Jr. New York : Greenwood Press, 1990, 206 p.
HOLLIS Record
--Largely periodical articles    

Biography

 

Archives and Manuscripts

Guide to Library and Archival Collections of African Americans in Medicine and Biomedical Research is a summary of the related materials available at the National Library of Medicine

Document Collections

Medical Heritage Library Anti-Black Racism in Medicine http://www.medicalheritage.org/anti-black-racism-in-medicine/

also, within that, a libguide from UChicago https://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/c.php?g=297610&p=1992345

Roots of Racism in Medicine from Medical Heritage Library (largely Black racism but may not fit in this exact section) http://www.medicalheritage.org/roots-of-racism-in-health-and-medicine/

Images

 

Periodicals

National Negro health news. Washington : United States Public Health Service. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan./Mar. 1933)-
HOLLIS Record

National Negro health news. Washington: United States Public Health Service, v. 1-18 no. 2, Jan./Mar. 1933-Apr./June 1950.
HOLLIS Record
HathiTrust Full Text (Reprint)
HathiTrust Full Text

National Negro Health Week: Annual observance under the auspices of the annual Tuskegee negro conference and the National negro business league, in cooperation with the United States Public Health Service, state health departments [etc.]. 1915-1939 (to 1951?). Washington, DC: United States Public Health Service.
HathiTrust Full Text, no. 9, 1923- 25, 1939
 

Journal of the National Medical Association. New York [etc.] : Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1909- . 
HOLLIS Records
PubMed Central Full Text 1909-2007

Personal Accounts

 

Statistics