African American healers
By: Clinton Cox ; Jim Haskins, general editor.
Series: Black stars; Black stars (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: African American physicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Physicians.; Medicine -- Biography.; African Americans -- Biography.
Genres: Biography; Juvenile literature.; Biography.
Description: Profiles over thirty notable African Americans in the health field, including Civil War nurse Susie King Taylor, Dr. Charles Drew, father of the blood bank, and young pioneering surgeon Ben Carson.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-154) and index.