Adam Biggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 7216173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Biggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Biggs |
| SIGNATURE | BIGGS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On Making Us Whole Again
On Making Us Whole Again Adam Biggs (bio) As a historian of race and medicine, my first visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture was a peculiar experience. I had been meaning to go since it opened in 2016 but only managed to arrange a trip this past summer as pandemic restrictions began to wane. By all accounts, it was extraordinary. World class in every way, the museum contained an abundance of richly informative and …
Louis W. Sullivan with David Chanoff, Breaking Ground. My Life in Medicine
Louis Sullivan’s autobiography, Breaking Ground, offers a valuable account of his professional achievements and a worthwhile look into the pitfalls facing black doctors and health care reformers in the mid-to-late twentieth century. Sullivan was born in Blakely, Georgia, in 1933. He earned his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College, went to medical school at Boston University and interned at Cornell’s New York Hospital. After completing his …
Doctoring Freedom
Reviewed by: Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation by Gretchen Long Adam Biggs Gretchen Long. Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xi + 234 pp. $37.50 (978-0-8078-3583-8). Doctoring Freedom is a rich exploration of the relationship between African American health and freedom from th…
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Doctoring Freedom
Reviewed by: Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation by Gretchen Long Adam Biggs Gretchen Long. Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xi + 234 pp. $37.50 (978-0-8078-3583-8). Doctoring Freedom is a rich exploration of the relationship between African American health and freedom from th…
Louis W. Sullivan with David Chanoff, Breaking Ground. My Life in Medicine
Louis Sullivan’s autobiography, Breaking Ground, offers a valuable account of his professional achievements and a worthwhile look into the pitfalls facing black doctors and health care reformers in the mid-to-late twentieth century. Sullivan was born in Blakely, Georgia, in 1933. He earned his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College, went to medical school at Boston University and interned at Cornell’s New York Hospital. After completing his …
On Making Us Whole Again
On Making Us Whole Again Adam Biggs (bio) As a historian of race and medicine, my first visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture was a peculiar experience. I had been meaning to go since it opened in 2016 but only managed to arrange a trip this past summer as pandemic restrictions began to wane. By all accounts, it was extraordinary. World class in every way, the museum contained an abundance of richly informative and …
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