@AbigailStrom @RepSeitz156 The AMA had no national position on allowing black doctors into their ranks until the 1960s- https://t.co/bb6v0WLi33
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In a series of debates over the admission of female and Negro physicians Nathan Smith Davis urged “his” @AmerMedicalAssn to adopt a policy of deferring such issues to the local level. This policy was outlawed by the civil rights legislation of the 1960s: h
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RT @agargmd: #TrustTheScience the AMA said as they excluded women and blacks from the white fraternity of physicians... The American Medic…
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#TrustTheScience the AMA said as they excluded women and blacks from the white fraternity of physicians... The American Medical Association and Race | Journal of Ethics | American Medical Association https://t.co/jD0oBOGfpi