selected publications
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academic article
- 'Sisters of a Darker Race': African American Graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1867-1925. Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 2021
- Demanding 'Justice to Our Color': Absalom Jones and Richard Allen's Narrative in Philadelphia's Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. Harvard Library Journal. 2021
- Foreword. Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery. 2021
- Understanding and Communication about COVID-19: Vaccine Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Equity. National Academies Press. 2021
- Edith Irby: A Hidden Figure in the History of Medical Education 2019
- 'Outstanding Service to Negro Public Health': Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee and Dr. Virginia M. Alexander and Black Women Physicians’ Public Health Activism. American Journal of Public Health. 2016
- No Struggle, No Fight, No Court Battle’: The 1948 Desegregation of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine. Journal of the History of Medicine. 2012
- ‘There Wasn’t a Lot of Comforts in Those Days:’ African Americans, Public Health, and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. Public Health Reports. 2010
- National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement: Hydroxyurea Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2008
- US Policy on Health Inequities: The Interplay of Politics and Research. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. 2006
- The ‘Boom and Bust Phenomenon’: The Hopes, Dreams, and Broken Promises of the Contraceptive Revolution. Contraception. 2000
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article
- "For Black Women, The Stereotype Endures". Philadelphia Inquirer. 2016
- Midian Othello Bousfield: Advocate for the Medical and Public Health Concerns of Black Americans. American Journal of Public Health. 2009
- Standing on Shoulders. American Journal of Public Health. 2009
- I am a Negro woman, graduate of the Woman’s Medical College of Pa.: 1910,’The Life and Career of Dr. Melissa Evelyn Thompson Coppin. A.M.E. Church Review. 2001
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book
- Making A Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement, 1920-1945. New York: Oxford University Press. 1995
- The Black Community Hospital: Contemporary Dilemmas in Historical Perspective. New York: Garland Publishing. 1989
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chapter
- "Foreword". Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery. 2021
- Without Health and Long Life All Else Fails’: A History of African-Americans and the Elimination of Racial Disparities in Health and Health Care. Health Care Issues in the Black Community, Third Edition. 2009
- The Role of Academic Medical Centers in the Elimination of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Cultural Proficiency in Addressing Health Disparities. 2008
- Passing or Passive: Postwar Hollywood Images of Black Physicians. Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Education and Entertainment through Film and Television in the United States. 2007
- Sickle Cell Disease: The Past, Present, and Future Social and Ethical Dilemmas. Renaissance of Sickle Cell Diseases Research in the Genome Era. 2007
- Hospitals. The Encyclopedia of the Great Migration. 2006
- The US Study of Untreated Syphilis at Tuskegee. PRIM&R Through the Years: Three Decades of Protecting Human Subjects. 2006
- Physicians. Black Women in American, 2nd edition. 2005
- Trust, Medical Care, and Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Multicultural Medicine and Health Disparities. 2005
- Dorothy Ferebee. Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 5. 2004
- May Edward Chinn. Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 5. 2004
- Mildred Jefferson. African American Lives. 2004
- Institutional Racism and Its Effects on Health Care: A Contemporary Problem in Historical Perspective. Child Health in the Multicultural Environment. 2000
- The Legacy of Tuskegee in the History of American Medicine: Beyond the Syphilis Study. Bioethics Research Concerns & Directions for African-Americans. 2000
- Race and the New Genetics: A Historical Perspective. The Implications of Genetics for Health Professional Education. 1999
- The Roots of the Black Hospital Reform Movement. Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health, 3rd Edition. 1997
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conference paper
- “Social Determinants of Inequities in Obesity Prevention and Control” 2019
- “Genomics, Personalized Medicine, and a History of the Dangers of Difference” 2019
- “African Americans and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic” 2018
- “The Legacy of James Marion Sims: Exploring the Intersection of Health, Gender, and Racial Inequalities” 2018
- Commentator 2017
- “The History of Race and American Medicine: African American Bodies and Disease” 2017
- 'Engendering and Transforming': The Health of Black Women in Medicine 2017
- Racial Justice, Medicine, and the American Friends Service Committee: The Activist Work of Dr. Virginia M. Alexander 2017
- Historical, Legal, and Social Aspects of Sickle Cell Trait Screening 2017
- Responsible Conduct in Research 2016
- “Clinic and Church: The Activist Life of Dr. Virginia M. Alexander, An African American Quaker Physician” 2016
- 'We Ought to Go in Texas, and I Don't Mean to a Segregated Medical School': Civil Rights Activists and the 1949 Desegregation of the University of Texas Medical Branch 2016
- Medicine, Religion, and Social Activism: The Life of Dr. Virginia M. Alexander, A Forgotten Black Quaker 2014
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report
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review
- Lundy Braun. Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014) 2015
- Laurie B. Green, John McKiernan-González, and Martin Summers, eds., Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North American (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2014). Social History of Medicine. 2015
- “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Reconsidered,” Perspectives,. Hastings Center Report. 2014
- Karen Kruse Thomas, Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy. Journal of American History. 2013
- Karen Kruse Thomas, Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954. Journal of American History. 2013
- Sandra Morgen, Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990. Women’s Review of Books. 2002