Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Joycelyn Elders

  • A collective narrative of Black women physicians in the United States

    Kathryne DycusUnited States In Twice As Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, From the Civil War to the 21st Century, Jasmine Brown hands us a collection of Black women physicians’ narratives and inserts her own into the mix. “Initially, I wanted to look at past socio-structural barriers preventing Black women…

  • Dr. Joycelyn Elders: An unwelcome prophet

    Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden “No prophet is welcome in his hometown.”— The Gospel of Saint Luke, 4:24. New American Standard Bible Joycelyn Elders, MD (b. 1933) was Surgeon General of the United States of America from 1993 to 1994. She was the second woman and the first Black person to have that position. Her life story…