The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and its Black physicians : the early years /

"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 histo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaplan, Mary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2016]
Subjects:
Tuskegee Veterans Hospital.
1900-1999
African American veterans > Medical care > History > 20th century.
African American physicians > History > 20th century.
Military hospitals > United States > History > 20th century.
Anciens combattants noirs américains > Soins médicaux > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecins noirs américains > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
African American physicians
Military hospitals
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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