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Abraham Flexner and the black medical schools. 1992
1Department of Medical Humanities, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA. savittt@ecu.edu
Abstract:
"Abraham Flexner and the Black Medical Schools" first appeared in Beyond Flexner: Medical Education in the Twentieth Century, Barbara Barzansky and Norman Gevitz, eds. Reproduced with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., Westport, CT. The article will be reprinted in a collection of the author's writings on African-American medical history called Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century America, to be published in December 2006 by Kent State University Press and published here with permission of the Kent State University Press.
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