February 13, 2025
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Event sponsored by:
History of Medicine Collections
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
History
Libraries
Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Contact:
Ingold, RachelSpeaker:
Jill Newmark, Margaret Humphreys, Todd Savitt
Join us for a symposium celebrating Remarkable Stories of American Black Surgeons in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.
Speakers include:
- Jill Newmark, "Without Concealment, Without Compromise: Black Civil War
Surgeons"
- Margaret Humphreys, "Searching for Dr. Harris"
- Todd L. Savitt, "Entering a 'White' Profession: African American Physicians in
the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries"
No registration is required. The event will be recorded.
Trent History of Medicine Lecture Series