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The good doctors : the Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care / John Dittmer.

Author: Dittmer, John, 1939- author.

ImprintJackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017.

Descriptionxii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note:"First UPM printing 2017"--Page [viii].

Note:Prologue: two roads to Atlantic City -- The good doctors -- Freedom summer in Mississippi -- The medical arm of the civil rights movement -- Selma and Jackson -- Summer 1965 -- The last march -- The war at home -- The medical arm of the new left -- The young Turks -- Health care is a human right -- Years of decline -- Coda -- Afterword : the MCHR legacy.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Original Version NoteReprint of: The good doctors / John Dittmer. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009. Updated and with a new preface.



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Dittmer, John, 1939- author.
Subject:
Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
Social medicine -- United States.
Right to health -- United States.
Civil rights movements -- United States.
African American physicians -- Southern States.
Contributor
Dittmer, John, 1939- Good doctors. 2009. Reprint of (manifestation):