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

  • Dittmer, John, 1939-
Date
[2009], ©2009
  • Books

About this work

Description

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.

Publication/Creation

New York : Bloomsbury Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-311) and index.

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.

Languages

  • English

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JQ.6.AA9
    		Open shelves

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Identifiers

ISBN

  • 9781596915671
  • 1596915676