Good doctors :

Dittmer, John, 1939-

Good doctors : the medical committee for human rights and the struggle for social justice in health care / John Dittmer. - New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010, c2009. - xi, 324 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-311) and index.

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.

9781608190935 1608190935


Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)


Social medicine--United States.
Right to health--United States.
Civil rights movements--United States.
African American physicians--Southern States.

RA418.3 .U6 / D58 2010

362.1097509/046

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