The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care - Softcover

Dittmer, John

 
9781608190935: The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
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ISBN 10: 1608190935 ISBN 13: 9781608190935
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2010

Synopsis

The Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in 1964 to support civil rights activists during Mississippi's Freedom Summer. MCHR volunteers exposed racism within the American Medical Association, desegregated southern hospitals, set up free clinics in inner cities, and created the model for the community health center. They were early advocates of single-payer universal health insurance. In The Good Doctors, celebrated historian John Dittmer gives an insightful account of a group of idealists whose message and example are an inspiration to all who believe that "Health Care is a Human Right."

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About the Author

John Dittmer received the Bancroft Prize, and several other awards, for Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. He is a professor of history at DePauw University

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1608190935
ISBN 13 
9781608190935
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
324

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