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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Brown, Jasmine (Medical student and author)     Subjects     Women physicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Women physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Women physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Women physicians -- United States -- Biography.     Physicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Physicians -- United States -- Biography.     Physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brown, Jasmine (Medical student and author)       by title:      Twice as hard : the ...       by call number:      610.922 B878t     Search the Web     Brown, Jasmine (Medical student and author)     Women physicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Women physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Women physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Women physicians -- United States -- Biography.     Physicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Physicians -- United States -- Biography.     Physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Twice as hard : the stories of Black women who fought to become physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century / Jasmine Brown. by Brown, Jasmine (Medical student and author) Beacon Press, 2023. Call #: 610.922 B878t Subjects Women physicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Women physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Women physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Women physicians -- United States -- Biography.   Physicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Physicians -- United States -- Biography.   Physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Physicians, Black -- United States -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780807025086 (hc) Alternate title:  Stories of Black women who fought to become physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century Description:  xvi, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial or altogether incorrect. In this work of extensive research, Jasmine Brown offers a rich new perspective, penning the long-erased stories of nine pioneering black women physicians beginning in 1860, when a black woman first entered medical school. Brown champions these black women physicians, including the stories of: Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who graduated from medical school only fourteen months after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and provided medical care for the newly freed slaves who had been neglected and exploited by the medical system ; Dr. Edith Irby Jones, the first African American to attend a previously white-only medical school in the Jim Crow South, where she was not allowed to eat lunch with her classmates or use the women's bathroom. Still, Dr. Irby Jones persisted and graduated from medical school, going on to directly inspire other black women to pursue medicine such as ; Dr. Joycelyn Elders, who, after meeting Dr. Irby Jones, changed her career ambitions from becoming a Dillard's salesclerk to becoming a doctor. In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed Dr. Elders as the US surgeon general, making her the first African American and second woman to hold this position. Brown tells the stories of these doctors from the perspective of a black woman in medicine. Her journey as a medical student already has parallels to those of black women who entered medicine generations before her. What she uncovers about these women's struggles, their need to work twice as hard and be twice as good, and their ultimate success serves as instruction and inspiration for new generations considering a career in medicine or science."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 610.922 B878t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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