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The good doctors : the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care  Cover Image E-book E-book

The good doctors : the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care

Summary: Award-winning historian Dittmer gives an insightful and inspiring account of a group of courageous doctors and nurses who fought the battle for racial justice in hospitals, clinics, and on the streets in the 1960s.--Book jacket.

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  • ISBN: 9781608191857 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 1608191850 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) : illustrations.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, [2009]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-311) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Prologue: two roads to Atlantic City -- The good doctors -- Freedom summer in Mississippi -- The medical arm of the civil rights movement -- Selma and Jackson -- Summer, 1965 -- The last march -- The war at home -- The medical arm of the new left -- The young turks -- Health care is a human right -- Years of decline.
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Description based on print version record.
Subject: Social medicine -- United States
Right to health -- United States
Civil rights movements -- United States
African American physicians -- Southern States
Voluntary Health Agencies -- history -- United States
Civil Rights -- history -- United States
Health Care Reform -- history -- United States
Health Services Accessibility -- history -- United States
History, 20th Century -- United States
Physicians -- United States
Social Justice -- history -- United States
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Arzt
Rassendiskriminierung
Krankenhaus
Krankenversicherung
USA
Schwarze
African American physicians
Civil rights movements
Right to health
Social medicine
Southern States
United States
Genre: Electronic books.

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