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Subject(s)

• African American veterans—Medical care—History—20th century [Browse]
• African American physicians—History—20th century [Browse]
• Military hospitals—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Tuskegee Veterans Hospital [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• History [Browse]

Summary note

"When the Tuskegee Veteran's Hospital opened in 1923, many in the Veteran's Bureau believed black physicians and nurses were not competent to staff the facility. With the exception of nurses' aides, orderlies, attendants and laborers, hospital personnel would be white. This history of the hospital reflects the struggle for racial equality in the U.S"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index.

Contents

• 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
• Thirty-seven years later.

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ISBN

• 9781476662985 ((softcover ; : alk. paper))
• 1476662983 ((softcover ; : alk. paper))
• 9781476625485
• 1476625484

LCCN

2016017901

OCLC

922454287

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