Episode 053 - Rebecca Lee Crumpler | Doctor

2020-03-30

Alternate Title: A Podcast of Medical Discourses Emma tells Emlyn about Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who became the first female African American doctor during the American Civil War, and who later treated thousands of freed slaves, along with many others, after the war had ended. Sources: Main Story - Rebecca Lee Crumpler Markel, Howard. "Celebrating Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first African-American woman physician." PBS News Hour. ...

Alternate Title: A Podcast of Medical Discourses

Emma tells Emlyn about Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who became the first female African American doctor during the American Civil War, and who later treated thousands of freed slaves, along with many others, after the war had ended.

Sources:

Main Story - Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Markel, Howard. "Celebrating Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first African-American woman physician." PBS News Hour. 2016. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/celebrating-rebecca-lee-crumpler-first-african-american-physician
Pfatteicher, S. "Crumpler, Rebecca Davis Lee (1831-1895), physician." American National Biography. 2000. https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1201058.
Friend of Hyde Park Branch Library Blog. "Rebecca Lee’s Medical Training." 2020. https://hplibraryfriends.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/rebecca-lees-medical-training/
Cazalet, Sylvain. "New England Female Medical College & New England Hospital for Women and Children." 2001. http://www.homeoint.org/cazalet/histo/newengland.htm
Neal, Anthony W. "Dr. Crumpler: Nation’s first African American woman physician." 2012. https://www.baystatebanner.com/2012/09/05/dr-crumpler-nations-first-african-american-woman-physician/

Women who Work

Shoutout to Rebecca Lakin and team for their paper on the reproduction across Crocodylia!

University of Bath. "Crocs' better parenting skills could make them more resilient to climate change." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 11 March 2020. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200311112008.htm.
Lakin, R. J., Barrett, P. M., Stevenson, C., Thomas, R. J. & Willis, M. A. First evidence for a latitudinal body mass effect in extant Crocodylia and the relationships of their reproductive characters. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blz208/5713003

Shoutout to Otlet and co-founder, Madeline Green, for their work starting a match-making system between graduate students in need of data and PIs with datasets that need to be analyzed.