Germs have no color line : Blacks and American medicine, 1900-1940 / [edited with an introduction by] Vanessa Northington Gamble.

Collection of articles reprinted from various sources, originally published, 1900-1940.

Includes bibliographical references.

Tuberculosis in the Negro / Seale Harris -- Human slavery as a prevention of pulmonary consumption / Thomas J. Mays -- Tuberculosis in the Negro : causes and treatment / John E. Hunter -- Tuberculosis in the Negro / E.H. Jones -- Tuberculosis among Negroes / W.J. Northern -- Tuberculization of the Negro / H.J. Achard -- The Negro and tuberculosis / E. Mayfield Boyle -- The Negro : a public health problem / C.E. Terry -- The Negro health problem / L.C. Allen -- The Negro as a problem in public health charity / Lawrence Lee -- Remarks on the health of the colored people / J. Madison Taylor -- Public health and the Negro / Algernon Brashear Jackson -- The part the Negro is playing in the reduction of mortality / Henry M. Minton -- Racial health / G.N. Woodward.

Negro illness and its effect upon the nation's health / Edwin R. Embree -- Some significant Negro movements to lower their mortality / Dennis A. Bethea -- The Negro hospital renaissance / John A. Kenney -- Hospital provision for the Negro race / Peter Marshall Murray -- The health of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois -- Reaching the Negro community / M.O. Bousfield -- Health problems of the Negro / Louis T. Wright -- Problems of health service for Negroes / Michael M. Davis -- The problem of Negro health as revealed by vital statistics / Louis I. Dublin -- The principal causes of death among Negroes / S.J. Holmes.

Gift of Charles E. Rosenberg.