Educated in a White Space: African American Graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Channel: HMS Center for Bioethics
Date: 11/02/2022

During its first seventy-five years, the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania graduated eighteen African American women – more than any other predominantly white medical school. This talk will examine the lives and careers of these “sisters of a darker race” who encountered racial and sexual discrimination as they demonstrated that medicine was Black women’s work.

Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD, presents Educated in a White Space: African American Graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1925 during a session of the 2022 series in honor of Black History Month, co-sponsored by Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. The series of events exams the history of racism in health care, its impact on Black individuals and the Black community, and gathering solutions for a healthier future from experts and thought leaders in history, health policy and law, social justice, and public health and medicine. Learn more at https://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/events/black-history-month-event-series/2022-black-history-month-event-series

Moderated by: 
Chloe Adams-White, BS '23 
Rueben C. Warren, DDS, MPH, Dr.PH, MDIV