Black Women Who Made Medical History
When we learn about the history of medicine, we usually hear about white men. Watson and DNA. Freud and psychology. Fleming and penicillin. You almost never hear about Black women. That is not because Black women haven’t participated in medicine — far from it.
Black women have been integral to the formation of modern medicine, from the enslaved women who…
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