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Affirmative action in medicine : improving health care for everyone / James L. Curtis.
LIBRA RA427 .C75 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curtis, James L., 1922-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Affirmative action programs.
- Right to health.
- Social justice.
- Health Workforce.
- United States.
- Physicians--supply & distribution.
- Black People.
- Cultural Diversity.
- Education, Medical--trends.
- Schools, Medical.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Workforce.
- United States.
- Physicians--supply & distribution.
- Black People.
- Cultural Diversity.
- Education, Medical--trends.
- Schools, Medical.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 237 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- An important look at how affirmative action in medical training is key to more equitable health care in the United States.
- Contents:
- Affirmative action in U.S. medical schools
- Affirmative action at Cornell
- Civil rights in health care
- Geographical distribution of minority residents
- Comparing specialty choices
- Affirmative action in graduate medical education
- Thirty-year progress report: geographic location of practice and medical specialty distribution
- The future of affirmative action in medicine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472112988
- OCLC:
- 50554798
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