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Additional authors

1. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Description

1. 2 videodiscs (62 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Dr. Davis discusses her reasons for becoming a psychiatrist and her career. Decision to become a doctor; interest in psychology during college; employment opportunities in the late '30s and early '40s; various jobs held; employment at U.S. Board of Censure; how she learned German; family background; decision to prepare for medical school; internship and residency; La Fargue Clinic and Dr. Worthington; motivation for psychoanalytic training and conviction that non-biological factors influence behavior; establishment of psychiatric clinic at Harlem Hospital and its poor funding; move to Vanderbilt Clinic; reproductive control controversy and work with female patients; one case in particular; ties with Columbia U.; how expansion of psychiatric dept. at Harlem Hospital occurred; why Davis asked to head dept. in 1962; daughter Liberty; identity; artwork donated to Schomburg Center; retirement in 1978; review of earlier activities that prepared her for Harlem Hospital.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

1. Davis, Elizabeth Bishop, 1920- -- Interviews
2. Harlem Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.). Department of Psychiatry
3. Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
4. African Americans in medicine -- New York (State) -- New York
5. Women psychiatrists -- United States -- Interviews
6. African American physicians -- Interviews
7. African Americans -- Mental health services
8. African American women -- New York (State) -- New York
9. Birth control -- New York (State) -- New York
10. Mental health counseling -- New York (State) -- New York
11. African Americans -- Race identity

Genre/Form

1. Nonfiction films.
2. Interviews.
3. Oral histories.

Call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1305

Terms of use (note)

1. Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography (note)

1. Dr. Elizabeth Bishop Davis is a psychiatrist.

Author

1. Davis, Elizabeth Bishop, 1920- interviewee.

Title

1. Oral history interview with Dr. Elizabeth Bishop Davis / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Jean Blackwell Hutson.

Publisher

1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1983.

Country of producing entity

1. United States.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videodisc

Digital file characteristics

1. video file DVD

Performer

1. Interviewer, Jean Blackewell Hutson.

Event

1. Recorded October 19, 1983. New York, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Terms of use

1. Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography

1. Dr. Elizabeth Bishop Davis is a psychiatrist.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, interviewer.
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Research call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1305