Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index.
Contents:
A common mission. The response -- Abraham Flexner and the black medical schools -- AMHPS : the founding -- The Heckler report -- Landmark legislation -- AMHPS and the Secretary -- The Office for Minority Health -- The Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities -- A national institute -- A common mission.
Summary:
"The authors tell the story of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools and the hard-won influence that it built in American politics and health care. This story speaks to the history of Black people's exclusion from medical fields and to racial inequities in health"-- Provided by publisher.
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