Race and Medicine

Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections at the University of Chicago Library

John Crerar Library Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine

Race and Medicine

This guide is meant to be general a starting point to locating books on the history of medicine as it relates to race in North America, primarily within the University of Chicago Library.Keywords & subject headings to try in the Library Catalog & online databases

history, historical
racial, race, ethnic, ethnicity, culture
Black, Negro, African-American etc. for other racial/ethnic/cultural groups. As language has changed over time, you may need to think of the variety of terms needed to describe a people, culture, country...
health, medicine, medical

Selected books at the Library:

Research Guide to Ethnic/Minority Health Statistics. Health Statistics | Ethnic/Minority Health, The University of Chicago Library
Dying in the city of the blues : sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health / Keith Wailoo. c2001. WAILOO, KEITH. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RA645.S53 W35 2001
Race, place, and medicine : the idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine / Julyan G. Beard. c1999. PEARD, JULYAN G. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC962.B6 P43 1999
Race, science and medicine, 1700-1960 / edited by Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris. 1999. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: R133 .R33 1999
Health, race, and German politics between national unification and Nazism, 1870-1945 / Paul Weindling. 1989. Weindling, Paul Location: Regenstein Stacks Call #: RA418.3.G3W450 1989
An American health dilemma : a medical history of African Americans and the problem of race / W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton ; with a foreword by Robert J. Blendon. 2000- Byrd, W. Michael. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RA448.5.N4B97 2000
From TB to AIDS : epidemics among urban Blacks since 1900 / David McBride. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1991. Series: SUNY series in Afro-American studies. Crerar Stacks RA448.5.N4M390 1991
Against the odds : Blacks in the profession of medicine in the United States / Wilbur H. Watson. c1999. Watson, Wilbur H. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: R695 .W38 1999
Another dimension to the Black diaspora : diet, disease, and racism / Kenneth F. Kiple, Virginia Himmelsteib King. 1981. Kiple, Kenneth F., 1939- Location: Regenstein Stacks Call #: RA448.5.N4K560
A history of selected diseases in the Black community : a working bibliography / Lenwood G. Davis. 1976, c1975. Davis, Lenwood G. Location: Regenstein Stacks Call #: Z5942.C73 no.1059 1976
Malaria : poverty, race, and public health in the United States / Margaret Humphreys. c2001. Humphreys, Margaret, 1955- Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC161.A2 H86 2001
Medical anthropology and African American health / Eric J. Bailey. 2000. Bailey, Eric J., 1958- Location: Regenstein Stacks Call #: RA448.5.N4 B424 2000
Culture, race, climate, and eye disease; an introduction to the study of geographical ophthalmology, by Ida Mann. With a foreword by Sir Stewart Duke-Elder. [1966] Mann, Ida, 1893- Location: Crerar Dewey Coll Call #: 617.7 X606
Science and the concept of race. Margaret Mead [and others], editors. 1968. American Association for the Advancement of Science Location: Regenstein Stacks Call #: GN325.A5 1968
divides : epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown / Nayan Shah. c2001. Shah, Nayan, 1966- Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RA448.5.C45 S53 2001

If you have any questions about resources or services available to the biomedical sciences community please contact Deb Werner, Biomedical Reference Librarian or Christa Modschiedler, Biomedical Bibliographer & Reference Librarian. You may also email the Crerar Reference Staff.

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