Grassroots medicine
Subtitle: the story of America's free health clinics
By: Gregory L. Weiss.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Clinics; Community health services; Health facilities; Hospitals; Community Health Services -- United States; Community Health Centers -- United States; Health Services Accessibility -- United States; Medically Uninsured -- United States
Description: "Grassroots Medicine delves into both the history of the free health clinic and the stories of the volunteers, staff members, and patients of the modern free health-care clinic. Through boundless research and hundreds of hours of recorded interviews, this book gives the reader a view into the free health-care community, represented by forty-five clinics - old, new, big, and small - spread throughout ten states and the District of Columbia."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to America's free health clinics; title: The emergence of free health clinics; title: The first transformation in free health clinics: an increased focus on the uninsured and working poor; title: The second transformation in free health clinics: the shift to the medical mainstream; title: The third transformation: the move to collective organization; title: Re-emergence of a national association; title: Free health clinic staff and volunteers; title: Patient responses and outcomes; title: The future path of free health clinics.