~This post courtesy Polina Ilieva, Head of Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.
Wednesday, October 10, 12 – 1:15 pm
Parnassus Library, 5th Floor, Lange Room
Join UCSF Archives & Special Collections as we explore the little-known history of African American women physicians’ careers in medicine from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Through an extensive survey of the careers of all known African American women who practiced medicine in this period, a complicated portrait of both accomplishment and constraint emerges.
This talk demonstrates that black women physicians succeeded in carrying out their demanding “missions” of attempting to address what we currently term “health disparities” in African American communities. Simultaneously, however, professionalized, scientific medicine in the twentieth century increasingly limited career opportunities available to black women physicians.
Speakers
Historian of medicine, Meg Vigil-Fowler, PhD
Vice Chancellor of Diversity and Outreach, Renee Navarro, MD, PharmD
Assistant Professor, History of Health Sciences at UCSF, Aimee Medeiros, PhD