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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.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xi, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Social medicine--United States.
Right to health care--United States.
Civil rights movements--United States.
African American physicians--Southern States.
Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
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.

Notes:

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.

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.

ISBN:

1596915676
9781596915671

OCLC:

(OCoLC)261343131

LCCN:

2008042878

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)