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• Author/Creator:Kaplan, Mary, author.
  
• Title:The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and its Black physicians : the early years / Mary Kaplan.
  
• ISBN:9781476662985
  1476662983
  9781476625485
  
• Publication:Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
  
• Physical Description:vii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  

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  • Location:MEDICAL/HISTORICAL, Stacks
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  • Call Number: UH474.5.T87 K37 2016 (LC)
    
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• Summary:"When the Tuskegee Veteran's Hospital opened in 1923, many in the Veteran's Bureau believed that black physicians and nurses were not competent to staff the facility. Except for nurses' aides, orderlies, attendants and laborers, hospital personnel would be white. The history of the hospital reflects the struggle for racial equality in the United States"--
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index.
  
• Contents:Threats, fear and triumph: the opening of the Tuskegee Veterans Hospital -- Health care for Black veterans -- Responding to the call for Black physicians at the Tuskegee Hospital -- Fuller's trainees -- The practice of medicine by Black physicians in the Jim Crow south -- The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital: challenges, successes and scandal -- 1986: Thirty-seven years later.
  
• Subjects:Tuskegee Veterans Hospital.
  African American veterans--Medical care--History--20th century.
  African American physicians--History--20th century.
  Military hospitals--United States--History--20th century.
  
• Subjects (Medical): Hospitals, Veterans--history.
  African Americans--history.
  Physicians--history.
  Veterans--history.
  History, 20th Century.