This History of Medicine tab in the Antiracism, Diversity, and Inclusion in Medicine LibGuide was created by faculty and staff in the Samuel J. Wood Library at Weill Cornell Medicine.
This section is not a comprehensive list of all available historical resources, but is meant to introduce the Weill Cornell Medicine community to secondary sources related to antiracism, diversity, and inclusion within the history of medicine. The list includes books, e-books, scholarly articles, videos, and podcasts.
The Antiracism, Diversity, and Inclusion in Medicine LibGuide will continue to be updated. If you have suggestions for additional resources, please contact library-adi-team@med.cornell.edu.
Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 by Harrell, J., Crutcher, B., & Wilson, W. (2017). Transcending the legacy of silence and shame surrounding the unethical syphilis study at Tuskegee. Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 34(3), 25.
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Kenny, S. C. (2013). The development of medical museums in the antebellum American South: Slave bodies in networks of anatomical exchange. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 87(1), 32-62.
Olivarius, K. (2019). Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans. The American Historical Review, 124(2), 425–455. Check availability.
COVID-19
American Association for the History of Medicine. COVID-19 Teaching Resources and Materials for Historical Research.
American Association for the History of Medicine. Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health. May 8-9, 2020.
Racism in Medicine
American Association for the History of Medicine. Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine.
“Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started.” 1619. The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 2019. nytimes.com/1619podcast (free)
A History of Neglect: Health Care for Blacks and Mill Workers in theTwentieth-Century South by 
Medical Apartheid by 
