A Black Physicians Story

Author : Douglas L. Conner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604731736
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Black Physician's Story written by Douglas L. Conner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of a black doctor in white Mississippi during the Jim Crow era and the fierce struggle for civil rights

Author : Thomas J. Ward
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557289360
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South written by Thomas J. Ward and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a variety of sources from oral histories to the records of professional organizations, Thomas J. Ward, Jr. examines the development of the African American medical profession in the South. Illuminating the contradictions of race and class, this research provides valuable new insight into class divisions within African American communities in the era of segregation.

Author : Douglas L. Conner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780835743396
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Black Physician's Story written by Douglas L. Conner and published by . This book was released on with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Florence Ridlon
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826333400
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights written by Florence Ridlon and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Edward Mazique, respected physician, contemporary of Martin Luther King, Jr., and influential Civil Rights activist in Washington, D.C.

Author : Damon Tweedy, M.D.
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250044642
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Man in a White Coat written by Damon Tweedy, M.D. and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK SELECTION • A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE BOOK SELECTION One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans When Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy soon meets a professor who bluntly questions whether he belongs in medical school, a moment that crystallizes the challenges he will face throughout his career. Making matters worse, in lecture after lecture the common refrain for numerous diseases resounds, "More common in blacks than in whites." Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine. As Tweedy transforms from student to practicing physician, he discovers how often race influences his encounters with patients. Through their stories, he illustrates the complex social, cultural, and economic factors at the root of many health problems in the black community. These issues take on greater meaning when Tweedy is himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far more common among black people. In this powerful, moving, and deeply empathic book, Tweedy explores the challenges confronting black doctors, and the disproportionate health burdens faced by black patients, ultimately seeking a way forward to better treatment and more compassionate care.

Author : W. Michael Byrd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135960496
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Health Dilemma written by W. Michael Byrd and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty. Virtually every part of this story revolves around race. More than 50 years after the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 classic about race relations in the USA, An American Health Dilemma presents a comprehensive and groundbreaking history and social analysis of race, race relations and the African-American medical and public health experience. Beginning with the origins of western medicine and science in Egypt, Greece and Rome the authors explore the relationship between race, medicine, and health care from the precursors of American science and medicine through the days of the slave trade with the harrowing middle passage and equally deadly breaking-in period through the Civil War and the gains of reconstruction and the reversals caused by Jim Crow laws. It offers an extensive examination of the history of intellectual and scientific racism that evolved to give sanction to the mistreatment, medical abuse, and neglect of African Americans and other non-white people. Also included are biographical portraits of black medical pioneers like James McCune Smith, the first African American to earn a degree from a European university, and anecdotal vignettes,like the tragic story of "the Hottentot Venus", which illustrate larger themes. An American Health Dilemma promises to become an irreplaceable and essential look at African-American and medical history and will provide an invaluable baseline for future exploration of race and racism in the American health system.

Author : W. Douglas Fisher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476663157
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Doctors of World War I written by W. Douglas Fisher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's only black combat units. The infantry regiments of the 93rd arrived first and were turned over to the French to fill gaps in their decimated lines. The 92nd Division came later and fought alongside other American units. Some of those doctors rose to prominence; others died young or later succumbed to the economic and social challenges of the times. Beginning with their assignment to the Medical Officers Training Camp (Colored)--the only one in U.S. history--this book covers the early years, education and war experiences of these physicians, as well as their careers in the black communities of early 20th century America.

Author : Sonnie W. Hereford
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081731721X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beside the Troubled Waters written by Sonnie W. Hereford and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A black southern doctor offers a gripping memoir of his childhood in Alabama, his efforts to overcome racism in the white medical community, his participation in the civil rights movement and his problems with the Medicaid program and state medical authorities"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sonnie W. Hereford
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081731721X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beside the Troubled Waters written by Sonnie W. Hereford and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A black southern doctor offers a gripping memoir of his childhood in Alabama, his efforts to overcome racism in the white medical community, his participation in the civil rights movement and his problems with the Medicaid program and state medical authorities"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Leslie J. Pollard Sr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641111621
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Segregated Doctoring written by Leslie J. Pollard Sr. and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1902 and 1952, Augusta, Georgia, attracted thirty-four black physicians. The earliest African American physicians began arriving in Augusta in the mid-1880s, when race relations were still evolving from the Reconstruction era. At that time, they were accorded privileges at the city's black public hospital. By 1902, racial attitudes had solidified, and black physicians were excluded from the African American hospital, a decision that endured for almost half a century. Legalized segregation forged an inextricable link between medical care and racial discrimination and provided the social context for African American exploitation. Not only were black physicians denied access to public hospitals, but they had limited opportunities for continuing education and were excluded from the corridors of power within the medical profession. They faced skeptics on both sides of the color line, albeit for different reasons, while competing with white physicians to provide medical care for the black community. They held the highest status in the black community and played a vital role in the community's response to segregation through racial solidarity and institutional development. Segregated Doctoring analyzes the structure of African American medical practice in the context of segregation and its accompanying inequities. It serves as an important corrective to the neglected story of black Augusta physicians and is an important addition to available scholarly literature that explores the city's rich medical history.