R M Weiss

Biographic Data

ID5531796
NAMER M Weiss
GIVEN NAMESR M
FAMILY NAMEWeiss
SIGNATUREWEISS R M
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX0

  • Revisiting Black Medical School Extinctions in the Flexner Era

    Lynn E Miller, Richard M Wei et al.ARTICLEJournal of the History of…2012

    Abraham Flexner's 1910 exposé on medical education recommended that only two of the seven extant medical schools for blacks be preserved and that they should train their students to "serve their people humbly" as "sanitarians." Addressing charges of racism, this article traces the roots of the recommendation that blacks serve a limited professional role to the schools themselves and presents evidence that, in endorsing the continuance of Howard's…

  • Medical Education Reform Efforts and Failures of U.S. Medical Schools, 1870-1930

    Lynn E Miller, Richard M Wei et al.ARTICLEJournal of the History of…2008

    The dramatic decline in the number of US medical schools in the early twentieth century has been traced to a medical education reform movement that gained momentum after the Civil War. The major parties to reform-the universities themselves, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), state licensing boards, the American Medical Association (AMA), and Flexner-had different interests and strategies, however, and scholars have continued to…