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

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

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Author / Creator:	Kaplan, Mary, author.
Imprint:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
Description:	vii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Tuskegee Veterans Hospital. African American veterans -- Medical care -- History -- 20th century. African American physicians -- History -- 20th century. Military hospitals -- United States -- History -- 20th century. African American physicians. Military hospitals. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10807384

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ISBN:	9781476662985 (softcover : alk. paper) 1476662983 (softcover : alk. paper) 9781476625485 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index.
Summary:	"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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Call Number:	UH474.5.T87 K37 2016
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