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Women physicians participate in professional dialogue when they publish their research. Discover a selection of books and articles from the NLM Digital Collections about both their scientific research and their experiences in a male-dominated field.
“Preventing Disease and Promoting Health in the Minority Community,” Journal of the National Medical Association, Edith Jones, 1986
Each month during her tenure as president of the National Medical Association, an organization founded to represent African American physicians when the American Medical Association was still segregated, Dr. Edith Irby Jones (b. 1927) contributed a brief column to the Journal of the National Medical Association. Topics included the use of computers in medical practice, the role of health insurance companies in constraining access to care, and this column on health inequities in minority communities. In this piece, Jones was especially critical of the part that HMOs, PPOs, and other organizations play in excluding the elderly, poor, and racial or ethnic minorities from healthcare. She also pushed for greater attention to the root causes of illness.
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