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

Title
  1. The good doctors : the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care / John Dittmer.
Published by
  1. New York : Bloomsbury Press, c2009.
Supplementary content
  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description
Author
  1. Dittmer, John, 1939-

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Description
  1. xi, 324 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. 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. b&w illustrations throughout.
Subject
  1. Right to health > United States
  2. Social Justice > history > United States
  3. Voluntary Health Agencies > history > United States
  4. Health Care Reform > history > United States
  5. Civil Rights > history > United States
  6. Social medicine > United States
  7. History, 20th Century > United States
  8. Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
  9. Civil rights movements > United States
  10. Physicians > United States
  11. African American physicians > Southern States
  12. Health Services Accessibility > history > United States
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. Sc E 10-906
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Dittmer, John, 1939-
Title
  1. The good doctors : the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care / John Dittmer.
Imprint
  1. New York : Bloomsbury Press, c2009.
Edition
  1. 1st ed.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Connect to:
  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description
LCCN
  1. 2008042878
ISBN
  1. 9781596915671
  2. 1596915676
Research call number
  1. Sc E 10-906
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