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Title:

The doctor-activist : physicians fighting for social change / edited by Ellen L. Bassuk, with the assistance of Rebecca W. Carman.

Publisher:

Plenum Press,

Copyright Date:

c1996

Description:

xxii, 254 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Physicians--Biography
Health reformers--Biography.
Social action--Case studies.
Physicians--United States--Personal narratives.
Delivery of Health Care--United States--personal narratives.
Social Change--United States--personal narratives.

Other Authors:

Bassuk, Ellen L., 1945-
Carman, Rebecca W.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Physicians fighting for social change : an overview / Ellen L. Bassuk and Jeffrey P. Koplan -- A life in social medicine / H. Jack Geiger -- An advocate in Asia / Judith Longstaff MacKay -- Crossroads / Louis Fazen -- A voice for the public's health / Donald P. Francis -- Physician as healer, scientist, and teacher / Yolanda Huet-Vaughn -- The perspective of detachment; the detachment of perspective / Noel Solomons -- Improving American Indian health / Edith R. Welty and Thomas K. Welty -- My obligation to others : a tradition carried forward / Fernando Aurelio Sanchez Mendoza -- Trying to make a difference / John E. Mack.

ISBN:

9780306452673
0306452677

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34354514
(OCoLC)35137061

LCCN:

96003873

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)