Carolyn Roberts talks about the hidden histories of African American medical practitioners

Carolyn Roberts, Yale University historian of medicine, talks about some of the hidden histories of African American medical practitioners during slavery. Dr. Roberts explores how the enslaved used botanical knowledge, herbal therapies, and spirituality as ways to resist brutality, cure disease, and heal their communities. She vividly traces how the slave trade contributed to the development of the pharmaceutical industry, the modernization of medicine, and the advancement of natural history.
Presented by Science Matters, a multimedia educational initiative of the Community Idea Stations, Central Virginia's PBS & NPR stations.
This program was held January 30, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia and represents the seventh of a series of eight science cafes in partnership between Science Pub RVA and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Science, Technology and Society Program, a unit of the College of Humanities and Sciences, and is supported by a National Science Foundation grant (#1611953).
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[@PrincessTitus]

Loving the knowledge, looking for the books she listed and will keep an eye out for her... we must teach our children.

[@amincider2451]

I enjoyed this presentation. I need more like this. Thank you.

[@Afrometa]

Great talk

[@mosellafelder2171]

Interesting topic!!!

[@JustSean714]

Hmm...do I get the vibe of speaking to the oppressed? Those who care for the oppressed? Or like it's just a talk to the oppressor? The language they use piques an instinct that is innate meant to reveal intention. Egyptians of old.

[@spyingonyallteacup2744]

why didn't she mention those black doctors and nurses who were present during the tusgeee trials

[@Afrometa]

It’s outside of the time Period in question