HMED 3075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Syphilis, Eugenics, Miscegenation
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Hmed 3075 lecture notes: 10/19 d iag nos ing r ac e. L ec ture: race and medicine in the 20th century. R eading : ruth schwartz cowan, genetic screening and genocidal claims. Freedmen"s bureau, 18(cid:1010)(cid:1009)-1872: established to assist southern blacks and whites make the transition into a society without slavery. Freedmen hospitals: set up hospitals in the southern and border states la(cid:272)ked fu(cid:374)di(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)al skills so did(cid:374)"t attract well-qualified physicians (low pay, established in temporary and abandoned buildings. Local governments established municipal hospitals for aa. African american physicians, educational institutions, churches, and fraternal organizations established black hospitals: to provide care within communities. Fear of medical experimentation and demonstration by white physicians: to provide aa physicians with hospital privileges, to compete with white physicians for small number of paying aa patients, to establish hospital-based nursing schools to train aa nurses. 1923: 202 black hospitals, 6 internship programs, 0 residency programs. (by 1910 internship was required for residency.
