| Revisiting Black Medical School Extinctions in the Flexner Era. | |
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PMID: 21296769 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Abraham Flexner's 1910 exposé on medical education recommended that only two of the seven extant medical schools for blacks be preserved and that they should train their students to "serve their people humbly" as "sanitarians." Addressing charges of racism, this article traces the roots of the recommendation that blacks serve a limited professional role to the schools themselves and presents evidence that, in endorsing the continuance of Howard's and Meharry's medical programs, Flexner exhibited greater leniency than he had toward comparable schools for white students. Whether his recommendations to eliminate the other five schools were key factors in their extinction is addressed here by examining 1901-30 enrollment patterns. Those patterns suggest that actions of the American Medical Association and state licensing boards, combined with the broader problem of limited premedical educational opportunities for blacks, were more consequential than was the Flexner report both for the extinction of the schools and for the curtailed production of black doctors. |
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Lynn E Miller; Richard M Weiss |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-2-4 |
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Title: Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences Volume: - ISSN: 1468-4373 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Feb |
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Created Date: 2011-2-7 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0413415 Medline TA: J Hist Med Allied Sci Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Management, La Salle University, 1900 W. Olney Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141. |
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