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