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The good doctors : the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care / John Dittmer.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781608191857 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1608191850 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, [2009]
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-311) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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