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Minutes. Is about 50 dr. Shakir welcome to class. Today we are going to talk about black women in medicine. We have spent quite a bit of time in her africanAmerican History course this semester talking about the relationship between race and medicine. Focus largely on black women in medicine. How ll give the background in the 19th cenutry like women 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 to the development of you lived in medicine. 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 l