The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care - Hardcover

The good doctors : the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.

Zustand: as new. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 324 pp.Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-311) and index. - 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. 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. Traces the story of the courageous doctors and nurses who fought pre-civil rights racial inequality through their services in hospitals, clinics, and on the streets, recounting how period medical professionals left their lives and private practices to march alongside and tend the wounds of demonstrators during the March on Selma, the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and other landmark episodes. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9781596915671. Keywords : RECHT, civil rights. Artikel-Nr. 21411

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