Abstract
I feel like a strange interloper in these proceedings. Most other conference participants are either educators with long practical experience in training minority students in the sciences and medicine or social scientists who have studied the attendant problems for years. By contrast, I am an historian, an historian of science and medicine more specifically, and I am very new to the business of medical education. Although I have been the assistant director of the Center for Biomedical Education (CBE) at the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY) for a little over two and a half years and in that capacity have performed many functions, I serve primarily to represent the social sciences and humanities in the center’s unusual educational curriculum and to embody what might be called a societal or ethical perspective.
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Begun, M. S. Legal considerations related to minority group recruitment and admissions. Journal of Medical Education, 1973, 48, 556–559.
Curtis, J. Blacks, medical schools, and society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1971.
Davis, G. J., and Sedlacek, W. E. Retention by sex and race of 1968–1972 U.S. medical school entrants, journal of Medical Education, 1975, 50, 925–933.
Davis, G. J., Smith, V. C, and Tarnoff, S. L. Recruitment and progress of minority medical school entrants 1970–1972. Journal of Medical Education, 1975, 50, 713–755.
Glazer, N. Ethnic inequality and public policy. New York: Basic Books, 1975.
Harrington, M. Keep open admissions open. New York Times Sunday Magazine, November 2, 1975, 16ff.
Mayer, M. Higher education for all? Commentary, 1973, 55 (2), 37–47.
Rattansi, P. M. Some evaluations of reason in sixteenth and seventeenth century philosophy. In M. Teich and R. Young (Eds.), Changing perspectives in the history of science. Boston: Reidel Press, 1973. Pp. 148–166 (esp. re Newton, pp. 154–165).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1977 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Brown, T.M. (1977). Minority Students and the Political Environment: A Historical Perspective. In: Melnick, V.L., Hamilton, F.D. (eds) Minorities in Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5851-1_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5851-1_5
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4757-5853-5
Online ISBN: 978-1-4757-5851-1
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive