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The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and its Black physicians : the early years / Mary Kaplan

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc [[2016]], [2016]

1 Online-Ressource

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Kaplan, Mary : Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and its Black physicians. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2016] (Druck-Ausgabe)

1-4766-2548-4 (electronic bk); 978-1-4766-2548-5 (electronic bk)

978-1-4766-6298-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4766-6298-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4766-6298-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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UH474.5.T87

362.11086/970976149     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: POL 019000 ; bisacsh: POL 027000

LOC-SH: Tuskegee Veterans Hospital ; African American physicians -- History -- 20th century ; Military hospitals -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; African American veterans -- Medical care -- History -- 20th century

United States ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare ; African American physicians ; Military hospitals ; History

"When the Tuskegee Veteran's Hospital opened in 1923, many in the Veteran's Bureau believed black physicians and nurses were not competent to staff the facility. With the exception of nurses' aides, orderlies, attendants and laborers, hospital personnel would be white. This history of the hospital reflects the struggle for racial equality in the U.S"--

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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 -- Thirty-seven years later.