Chapter 10: Towards A History of Medical Higher Education in The American South: Southern Nationalism, Racial Ethos, and the Flexner Report of 1910

Despite some literature on medical higher education in the American South, there remains no overarching subject-specific text. As such, this chapter provides a narrative guided by literary premises, which, in addition to future archival research, has the potential to become an expansive regional history. Through an examination of relevant publications (dedicated to southern medical higher education or briefly acknowledging it), three themes emerged: southern nationalism, racial ethos, and the impact of the 1910 Flexner Report.