Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Davis, Elizabeth Bishop, 1920-

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

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

Summary

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

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Interviews
• Birth control > New York (State) > New York
• African American physicians > Interviews
• Women psychiatrists > United States > Interviews
• African American women > New York (State) > New York
• Harlem Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.) > Department of Psychiatry
• Nonfiction films
• African Americans > Mental health services
• African Americans > Race identity
• Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
• Oral histories
• Mental health counseling > New York (State) > New York
• Davis, Elizabeth Bishop, 1920- > Interviews
• African Americans in medicine > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

• Nonfiction films.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.

Terms of Use (note)

• 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)

• Dr. Elizabeth Bishop Davis is a psychiatrist.

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1305

OCLC

934466773

Author

Davis, Elizabeth Bishop, 1920- interviewee.

Title

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

Publisher

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

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Digital File Characteristics

video file DVD

Performer

Interviewer, Jean Blackewell Hutson.

Event

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

Terms Of Use

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

Dr. Elizabeth Bishop Davis is a psychiatrist.

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Added Author

Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, interviewer.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1305