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The good doctors : the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care / John Dittmer.
- Title
- The good doctors : the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care / John Dittmer.
- Author
- Dittmer, John, 1939-
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Press, c2009.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | RA418.3.U6 D58 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 324 p. : ill.; 24 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
- African American physicians > Southern States
- Arzt
- Bürgerrechtsbewegung
- Civil Rights > history
- Civil rights movements > United States
- Health Care Reform > history
- Health Services Accessibility > history
- History, 20th Century
- Krankenhaus
- Krankenversicherung
- Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
- Physicians
- Rassendiskriminierung
- Right to health > United States
- Schwarze
- Social Justice > history
- Social medicine > United States
- USA
- United States
- Voluntary Health Agencies > history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-311) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781596915671
- 1596915676
- LCCN
- 2008042878
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries