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Slavery and the Journal

Founded by men whose families profited from slavery, the Journal provided a prominent forum where physicians perpetuated race hierarchies before and after the Civil War.

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Title
Slavery and the Journal — Reckoning with History and Complicity
Author
Jones, David S  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Podolsky, Scott H; Meghan Bannon Kerr; Hammonds, Evelynn 1 

 From the Departments of the History of Science (D.S.J., E.H.) and of African and African American Studies (E.H.), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (D.S.J., S.H.P.) and the Center for the History of Medicine (S.H.P., M.B.K.), Harvard Medical School, Boston — both in Massachusetts. 
Pages
2117-2123
Section
Perspective Recognizing Historical Injustices in Medicine and the Journal
Publication year
2023
Publication date
Dec 7, 2023
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
ISSN
00284793
e-ISSN
15334406
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2899096312
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