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The good doctors : the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care / John Dittmer.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dittmer, John, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine--United States.
- Social medicine.
- African American physicians.
- United States.
- Right to health--United States.
- Right to health.
- Civil rights movements--United States.
- Civil rights movements.
- African American physicians--Southern States.
- Southern States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dittmer, John, 1939- (autograph) (RBC Reference copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-311) and index.
- Local Notes:
- RBC Reference copy presented to Penn Libraries by the author in honor of Walter J. Lear (1923-2010). Copy signed in ms. by author.
- ISBN:
- 9781596915671
- 1596915676
- OCLC:
- 261343131
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