"We must attack the system": The Print Practice of Black "Doctresses"
@article{Allen2018WeMA,
title={"We must attack the system": The Print Practice of Black "Doctresses"},
author={Peter S. Allen},
journal={Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory},
year={2018},
volume={74},
pages={113 - 87}
}Abstract:The first two African American women to earn medical degrees in the United States—Rebecca Crumpler (1864) and Rebecca Cole (1867)—each published printed material that reveals a burgeoning critical practice from within the medical profession. Their texts perform a Black critical medical humanism, or a practice of critique attuned to the systems (medical and otherwise) that affect individuals' and communities' health. Crumpler's and Cole's critique is especially attentive to structures…
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