Title: The good doctors : the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care /
Authors: Dittmer, John, 1939-
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.); Social Justice; Physicians; History, 20th Century; Health Services Accessibility; Health Care Reform; Civil Rights; Voluntary Health Agencies; Social medicine United States.; Right to health United States.; Civil rights movements United States; African American physicians Southern States.; United States; United States
Abstract: 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.--Book jacket.
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.