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9781596915671

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9781596915671

  • ISBN10:

    1596915676

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-05-19
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
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Summary

The untold story of the courageous doctors and nurses who fought the battle for racial justice in hospitals, in clinics, and on the streets in the 1960s.The Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in the summer of 1964 by medical professionals, mostly white and Northern, to provide care and support for Civil Rights activists who were organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside and tend the wounds of demonstrators from Freedom Summer, to the March on Selma, to the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. Galvanized, and sometimes radicalized, by their firsthand view of disenfranchised communities, the MCHR soon expanded its mission to encompass a range of causes from poverty to the war in Vietnam, and later took on the whole of the United States healthcare system. The MCHR doctors soon realized that fighting segregation would mean not just caring for white volunteers, but exposing and correcting the shocking inequalities in segregated health care. They pioneered community health plans and brought medical care to underserved, or unserved, areas.Though education was the most famous battleground for integration, the appaling injustice of segregated health care had equally devastating consequences. Award-winning historian John Dittmer, author of the classic Civil Rights historyLocal People, has written an insightful and moving account of a group of idealists who put their careers in the service of the belief, stated in their motto, that "Health Care Is a Human Right."

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Prologue: Two Roads to Atlantic Cityp. 1
The Good Doctorsp. 18
Freedom Summer in Mississippip. 38
The Medical Arm of the Civil Rights Movementp. 61
Selma and Jacksonp. 85
Summer 1965p. 110
The Last Marchp. 130
The War at Homep. 157
The Medical Arm of the New Leftp. 178
The Young Turksp. 205
Health Care Is a Human Rightp. 229
Years of Declinep. 251
Codap. 265
Afterword: The MCHR Legacyp. 273
Acknowledgmentsp. 283
Notesp. 285
Indexp. 313
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