| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 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. |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tuskegee Veterans Hospital.
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African American veterans -- Medical care -- History -- 20th century.
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African American veterans. |
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Medical care. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
African American physicians -- History -- 20th century.
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Military hospitals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Military hospitals. |
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United States. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. |
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African American physicians. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kaplan, Mary. Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and its Black physicians. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2016] 9781476662985 (DLC) 2016017901 (OCoLC)922454287 |
| ISBN |
9781476625485 (electronic book) |
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1476625484 (electronic book) |
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9781476662985 |
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1476662983 |
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