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  1. Past History Talks - National Library of Medicine 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/lectures/history_talks.html
    ... Circulating Now . This presentation considers how people of African descent became targets of eugenic study during the early ... and assumptions eugenicists used to cast people of African descent as inherently unfit. Eugenicists saw blackness as a ...
  2. Additional Resources - Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/.../education/additionalresources.html
    ... a history of the involvement of people of African descent in the nursing profession in the US, the ... King, Lisa Y. "In Search of Women of African Descent Who Served During the Civil War Union Navy." ...
  3. Changing the Face of Medicine | May Edward Chinn 
    https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_61.html
    ... says, faculty told her "because I was of African descent, that unless I could afford to go to ... says, faculty told her "because I was of African descent, that unless I could afford to go to ...
  4. Changing the Face of Medicine | Lucille C. Norville Perez 
    https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_251.html
    ... the collective interests of physicians and patients of African descent. The organization, which represents more than 25,000 African American physicians in the United States, aims to ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Encyclopaedia Americana: a popular dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, history, ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Carey & Lea, 1830-33
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/00110080RX11
    ... American.) The Negroes are Afri- cans, or of African descent, and are not very numerous. Slavery has been ...
  6. Glossary | Victor A. McKusick - Profiles in Science 
    https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/jq/feature/glossary
    ... chronic anemia that occurs primarily in individuals of African descent who are homozygous (a gene pair that possesses ...
  7. Glossary | Linus Pauling - Profiles in Science 
    https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/mm/feature/glossary
    ... chronic anemia that occurs primarily in individuals of African descent who are homozygous (a gene pair that possesses ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Sir, I enclose herewith a copy of an opinion of the Attorney General, dated July 14, 1864, as ... 
    Publication: [Washington?] : [publisher not identified], [1864]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101657296
    ... to the employment and enrolment of persons of African descent in the service of the United States. The ... which they may be found competent, persons of African descent ; and such persons shall be enrolled and organized ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Mepolizumab (Nucala??, GlaxoSmithKline plc.) for the treatment of severe asthma with ... 
    Publication: [Boston, MA] : Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, March 14, 2016
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101678996
    ... were not enough patients studied who are of African descent or who are younger than 18 to draw ... groups, randomized a total of 39 individuals of African descent. In this subgroup, the rate ratio for asthma ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - The army surgeon's manual : for the use of medical officers, cadets, chaplains, and hospital .... 
    Publication: New York : Baillière Bros., 1865
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/62510310R
    ... following substituted therefor: The employment of persons of African descent, male or female, as cooks or nurses, wiU ... following substituted therefor: The employment of persons of African descent, male or female as cooks or nurses, wiU ...
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