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The racial divide in American medicine : black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care, edited by Richard D. deShazo

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"This book documents the struggle for equity in health and health care by African American citizens and physicians in Mississippi and the United States. Dr. Richard D. deShazo and the contributors to the volume trace the dark journey from a system of slave hospitals in the state, through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era, to the present day. They substantiate that current health disparities in the state are directly linked to America's history of separation, neglect, struggle, and disparities. Contributors reveal details of individual physicians' journeys for recognition both as African Americans and as professionals in Mississippi. Despite discrimination by their white colleagues and threats of violence, a small but fearless group of African American physicians fought for desegregation of American medicine and society. For example, T.R.M. Howard, MD, in the all-black city of Mound Bayou led a private investigation of the Emmett Till murder that helped trigger the civil rights movement. Later, other black physicians risked their lives and practices to furnish care for white civil rights workers during the civil rights movement. Richard deShazo has assembled an accurate account of the lives and experiences of black physicians in Mississippi, one that gives full credit to the actions of these pioneers. The introduction and essays address ongoing isolation and distrust among black and white colleagues in Mississippi. This book will stimulate dialogue, apology, and reconciliation, with the ultimate goal of improving disparities in health and health care and addressing long-standing injustices in our country."--Provided by publisher
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xxxii, 215 pages)
Contents
  • A roadmap to the discovery of a hushed truth
  • Joseph and Jefferson Davis and the roots of the black hospital and community health center movements
  • The underappreciated doctors of the American civil rights movement, part I: Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, MD
  • A crooked path made straight: the rise and fall of the southern governors' plan for black physicians (1945-1970)
  • Black physicians and the struggle for civil rights: lessons from the Mississippi experience, part I: the forces for and against change
  • Black physicians and the struggle for civil rights: lessons from the Mississippi experience, part II: their lives and experiences
  • Freedom summer, Mississippi burning, and Jack Geiger's dream
  • A white dean and black physicians at the epicenter of the civil rights movement
  • An unwilling partnership with the great society, part I: head start, a poison pill, and the beginning of change in the white medical community
  • An unwilling partnership with the great society, part II: physicians discover malnutrition, hunger, and the politics of hunger
  • Opening the doors of the great republic: sex, race, and organized medicine
Isbn
9781496817693
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The racial divide in American medicine : black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care
Title
The racial divide in American medicine
Title remainder
black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care
Statement of responsibility
edited by Richard D. deShazo
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Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"This book documents the struggle for equity in health and health care by African American citizens and physicians in Mississippi and the United States. Dr. Richard D. deShazo and the contributors to the volume trace the dark journey from a system of slave hospitals in the state, through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era, to the present day. They substantiate that current health disparities in the state are directly linked to America's history of separation, neglect, struggle, and disparities. Contributors reveal details of individual physicians' journeys for recognition both as African Americans and as professionals in Mississippi. Despite discrimination by their white colleagues and threats of violence, a small but fearless group of African American physicians fought for desegregation of American medicine and society. For example, T.R.M. Howard, MD, in the all-black city of Mound Bayou led a private investigation of the Emmett Till murder that helped trigger the civil rights movement. Later, other black physicians risked their lives and practices to furnish care for white civil rights workers during the civil rights movement. Richard deShazo has assembled an accurate account of the lives and experiences of black physicians in Mississippi, one that gives full credit to the actions of these pioneers. The introduction and essays address ongoing isolation and distrust among black and white colleagues in Mississippi. This book will stimulate dialogue, apology, and reconciliation, with the ultimate goal of improving disparities in health and health care and addressing long-standing injustices in our country."--Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
362.108996/073
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
RA563.M56
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
WA 300 AA1
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deShazo, Richard D.
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  • Discrimination in medical care
  • African Americans
  • Equality
  • Health and race
  • Healthcare Disparities
  • Racism
  • African Americans
  • Social Discrimination
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Civil Rights
  • United States
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • Discrimination in medical care
  • Equality
  • Health and race
  • United States
Label
The racial divide in American medicine : black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care, edited by Richard D. deShazo
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
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  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
A roadmap to the discovery of a hushed truth -- Joseph and Jefferson Davis and the roots of the black hospital and community health center movements -- The underappreciated doctors of the American civil rights movement, part I: Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, MD -- A crooked path made straight: the rise and fall of the southern governors' plan for black physicians (1945-1970) -- Black physicians and the struggle for civil rights: lessons from the Mississippi experience, part I: the forces for and against change -- Black physicians and the struggle for civil rights: lessons from the Mississippi experience, part II: their lives and experiences -- Freedom summer, Mississippi burning, and Jack Geiger's dream -- A white dean and black physicians at the epicenter of the civil rights movement -- An unwilling partnership with the great society, part I: head start, a poison pill, and the beginning of change in the white medical community -- An unwilling partnership with the great society, part II: physicians discover malnutrition, hunger, and the politics of hunger -- Opening the doors of the great republic: sex, race, and organized medicine
Control code
1031433536
Extent
1 online resource (xxxii, 215 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781496817693
Lccn
2018018528
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1031433536
Label
The racial divide in American medicine : black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care, edited by Richard D. deShazo
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
A roadmap to the discovery of a hushed truth -- Joseph and Jefferson Davis and the roots of the black hospital and community health center movements -- The underappreciated doctors of the American civil rights movement, part I: Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, MD -- A crooked path made straight: the rise and fall of the southern governors' plan for black physicians (1945-1970) -- Black physicians and the struggle for civil rights: lessons from the Mississippi experience, part I: the forces for and against change -- Black physicians and the struggle for civil rights: lessons from the Mississippi experience, part II: their lives and experiences -- Freedom summer, Mississippi burning, and Jack Geiger's dream -- A white dean and black physicians at the epicenter of the civil rights movement -- An unwilling partnership with the great society, part I: head start, a poison pill, and the beginning of change in the white medical community -- An unwilling partnership with the great society, part II: physicians discover malnutrition, hunger, and the politics of hunger -- Opening the doors of the great republic: sex, race, and organized medicine
Control code
1031433536
Extent
1 online resource (xxxii, 215 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781496817693
Lccn
2018018528
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1031433536

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