Educated in a White Space: African American Graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1925

Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD
University Professor of Medical Humanities, Medicine, and Health Policy and American Studies
The George Washington University

Abstract: During its first seventy-five years, the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania graduated eighteen African American women—more than any other predominantly white medical school. This talk will examine the lives and careers of these “sisters of a darker race” who encountered race and sex discrimination as they demonstrated that medicine was Black women’s work.

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Presented by Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care and Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics