Physicians for the People : Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970
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| Title: | Physicians for the People : Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970 |
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| Description: | WINNER OF THE JAMES F. SULZBY AWARD Healing against the odds—Black doctors, bold resistance, and the fight for medical justice in Alabama. Physicians for the People chronicles the remarkable stories of 241 Black doctors who practiced medicine in Alabama during the Jim Crow era. Historian Jack D. Ellis reveals the ingenuity and resilience of these trailblazing doctors who defied segregation by establishing hospitals and clinics and providing vital healthcare to underserved Black communities. This meticulously researched work draws on archival sources, oral histories, and an unparalleled database to dismantle the myth of a monolithic medical system in the Jim Crow South. Jack D. Ellis argues that the post–Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives hold special significance, illuminating both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in the medical professions. Offering much of interest to students and scholars of Black history, medical history, and the civil rights movement, Physicians for the People exposes the deliberate exclusion faced by Black doctors within the white medical establishment and their ongoing fight for racial equality in medicine. |
| Authors: | Jack D. Ellis |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Racism against Black people--Alabama--History, Physicians--Alabama--Biography, African American physicians--Alabama--Biography, African Americans--Medical care--Alabama--History, Medical care--Alabama--History, Discrimination in medical care--Alabama--History |
| Categories: | HISTORY / General, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / African American & Black, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | WINNER OF THE JAMES F. SULZBY AWARD Healing against the odds—Black doctors, bold resistance, and the fight for medical justice in Alabama. Physicians for the People chronicles the remarkable stories of 241 Black doctors who practiced medicine in Alabama during the Jim Crow era. Historian Jack D. Ellis reveals the ingenuity and resilience of these trailblazing doctors who defied segregation by establishing hospitals and clinics and providing vital healthcare to underserved Black communities. This meticulously researched work draws on archival sources, oral histories, and an unparalleled database to dismantle the myth of a monolithic medical system in the Jim Crow South. Jack D. Ellis argues that the post–Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives hold special significance, illuminating both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in the medical professions. Offering much of interest to students and scholars of Black history, medical history, and the civil rights movement, Physicians for the People exposes the deliberate exclusion faced by Black doctors within the white medical establishment and their ongoing fight for racial equality in medicine. |
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| ISBN: | 9780817322236 9780817361860 9780817395452 |
