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An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race: Beginnings to 1900 (Routledge, 2012). Deutsch, Albert. The mentally ill in America-A History of their care and treatment from colonial times (1937). Duffy, John. From Humors to Medical Science: A History of American Medicine (2nd ed. 1993) Duffy, John.
Guy de Chauliac (1290–1368) — one of the first physicians to have an experimental approach towards medicine; also recorded the Black Death; Anna Manning Comfort (1845-1931) — first woman medical graduate to practice in the state of Connecticut; Loren Cordain (born 1950) — American nutritionist and exercise physiologist, Paleolithic diet
May Edward Chinn (April 15, 1896 – December 1, 1980) was an American physician. She was the first African-American woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, now NYU School of Medicine, and the first African-American woman to intern at Harlem Hospital. In her private practice, she provided care for black patients who would not ...
Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II.
Mattie E. Coleman in 1932, an African American physician, became the first graduate of the dental program at Meharry Medical College. [61] Anna Bailey Coles was the founding dean of Howard University's College of Nursing, created in 1969. [62] M. E. Thompson Coppin was the 10th African American woman to become a medical doctor in the United ...
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the World Health Organization, though, disagree, calling abortion an "essential" part of health care. Trump wants to further ...
Jonas Edward Salk (/ s ɔː l k /; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine .
Marie Equi (1872–1952) was an American doctor and activist for women's access to birth control and abortion. [95] Fannie Almara Quain (1874–1950) was the first woman born in North Dakota to earn a doctor of medicine degree. [96] Karola Maier Milobar (born 1876) became the first female physician to practice in Croatia in 1906. [93]