Race, Sexuality, and the "Progressive Physician": African American Doctors, Eugenics, and Public Health, 1900-1940

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dc.contributor.advisorMichel, Sonya Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorNuriddin, Ayahen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistory/Library & Information Systemsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-26T05:46:12Z
dc.date.available2014-06-26T05:46:12Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis will examine how African American doctors interpreted eugenic thought in the early twentieth century. African American doctors embraced eugenics for its potential to improve the health of their race, thus bringing about a kind of "biological racial uplift." African American doctors thus drew on their discipline to pursue a form of eugenic activism that had internal and external ramifications for the race. . Even though African Americans faced medical injustice, they were not simply the victims of eugenics and scientific racism. They were also critics and proponents of eugenics. The first chapter will address how eugenics shaped African American discussions of public health, and how eugenic ideas about sex and sexuality influenced their discourse and understanding of venereal disease. The second chapter will examine how African American doctors discussed birth control, compulsory sterilization, and abortion within the context of racial uplift.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15499
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistory of scienceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAfrican American historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledeugenicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmedicineen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpublic healthen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledraceen_US
dc.titleRace, Sexuality, and the "Progressive Physician": African American Doctors, Eugenics, and Public Health, 1900-1940en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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