| Main Title |
The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and its Black physicians : the early years / |
| Author |
Kaplan, Mary,
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| Publisher |
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, |
| Year Published |
2016 |
| OCLC Number |
922454287 |
| ISBN |
9781476662985; 1476662983; 9781476625485; 1476625484 |
| Subjects |
African American veterans--Medical care--History--20th century ;
African American physicians--History--20th century ;
Military hospitals--United States--History--20th century ;
Hospitals, Veterans--history ;
African Americans--history
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| Additional Subjects |
Tuskegee Veterans Hospital
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| Internet Access |
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| ELBM |
UH474.5.T87K37 2016 |
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AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH |
12/21/2022 |
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| Collation |
vii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
Threats, fear and triumph: the opening of the Tuskegee Veterans Hospital -- Health care for Black veterans -- Responding to the call for Black physicians at the Tuskegee Hospital -- Fuller's trainees -- The practice of medicine by Black physicians in the Jim Crow south -- The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital: challenges, successes and scandal -- 1986: Thirty-seven years later. "When the Tuskegee Veteran's Hospital opened in 1923, many in the Veteran's Bureau believed that black physicians and nurses were not competent to staff the facility. Except for nurses' aides, orderlies, attendants and laborers, hospital personnel would be white. The history of the hospital reflects the struggle for racial equality in the United States"-- |
