Laid the Foundation Black women laid the foundation for the work we will emphasize. Black female physicians in philadelphia in a postworld war ii context. We will lay some of the groundwork first giving you greater context in the ways in which black women in the 19th century had a significant contribution to the development of you lived in medicine. Of the practice of health and healing and medicine more broadly. Most Cancer Prevention programs that were funded, operated and run by black women physicians, largely in philadelphia. One of the first black woman we have to discuss his dr. Rebecca crumpler. In the mid19th century africanamerican women used medical training as a form of racial uplift. We talked about the limitations of racial uplift. In 1864, Rebecca Crumpler was the first africanamerican woman to graduate from the new england medical female college. Crumpler practiced medicine in Richmond Virginia after the civil war, focusing on issues of tuberculosis. Working extensively
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While Barbie’s career options have increased, there is clearly still room for improvement
In her elegant qualitative study, Katherine Klamer dares the reader to dream bigger for a rising generation of girls.1 In an analysis of nearly 90 Barbies, Klamer found that Barbie brand medical professional dolls largely treated children (63%, n=48/76), with only three dolls (4%, n=3/76) working with adults. 59% of the Barbie brand dolls were white, 28% black, and 6% East Asian, and none had any physical disabilities. All Barbie brand doctors appeared to have either no specialization or were paediatricians with no apparent sub-specialization. Analysis showed that the dolls’ personal safety accessories were inadequate for standard practice; 98% of the Barbie brand dolls came with stethoscopes yet only 4% had face masks. Overall, the group of Barbies showed only a very limited range of medical careers.1 As surgeons in decidedly male dominated fields, we support Klamer’s conclusion that Barbi
Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first Black woman in the U.S. to earn an M.D., earned while the Civil War raged, and the first Black person in the country to write a medical book, a popular guide with a preventive approach