The Mobile Medical Museum is hosting a lecture titled “Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the Turn-of-the-Century South” by Todd L. Savitt on May 12, 2010, at 6 p.m. at the University of South Alabama Health Sciences Building.
Savitt is a historian of medicine in the department of medical humanities at East Carolina University School of Medicine in Greenville, N.C. His primary research interests are African-American medical history and medical history of the American West and South.
He has written or co-edited four books (including
Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Ante Bellum Virginia and
Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South) and a number of articles on such topics as the history of sickle-cell anemia, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), use of African Americans for medical experimentation, the entry of black physicians into the American medical profession and early African-American medical schools. He was visiting professor of history at the University of Montana and St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula in 1994 and recently completed an article on the early history of that hospital.
Savitt received his bachelor's degree from Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and his master’s degree and doctorate in history from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
The lecture is provided free of charge, but RSVP’s are requested. Call (251) 415-1109 to make a reservation.
This program is made possible by the following supporters:
Gold Sponsor $500.00
Byron E. Green, M.D.
Charles B. Rodning, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.
Silver Sponsor $250.00
Alabama Orthopaedic Clinic, P.C.
Marion L. Carroll, Jr., M.D.
L. Lamar Snow, M.D.
Bronze Sponsor $100.00
Citrin & Rihner Cardiology, P.C.
Paul W. Petcher, M.D.
