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
Try using some of the following keywords and subject headings in Lens or a database.
- 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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