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Volume 341:379 July 29, 1999 Number 5
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Black Psychiatrists and American Psychiatry

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Edited by Jeanne Spurlock. 228 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Association, 1999. $28. ISBN 0-89042-411-X.

The 100-year effort by black psychiatrists to become important contributors to mainstream American psychiatry began with the graduation of Solomon Carter Fuller from Boston University School of Medicine in 1897. The history of that effort is presented in this work, along with reports on the current status of black psychiatrists working in forensics, psychoanalysis, child and adolescent psychiatry, academia, and psychiatric research. Editor Jeanne Spurlock, a professor of psychiatry at Howard University College of Medicine and George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has engaged an impressive array of authors whose contributions reflect in content and tone the quiet, . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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