The good doctors
Subtitle: the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care
By: John Dittmer
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781596915671
Subjects: Civil rights movements; Social medicine; African American physicians; Right to health
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-311) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: two roads to Atlantic City; title: The good doctors; title: Freedom summer in Mississippi; title: The medical arm of the civil rights movement; title: Selma and Jackson; title: Summer, 1965; title: The last march; title: The war at home; title: The medical arm of the new left; title: The young turks; title: Health care is a human right; title: Years of decline.