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Black physicians and the struggle for civil rights: lessons from the Mississippi experience: part 1: the forces for and against change.
- Source :
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The American journal of medicine [Am J Med] 2014 Oct; Vol. 127 (10), pp. 920-5. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Jun 15. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- The roles of black physicians in the South in the period leading up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 have not been fully disclosed. In Mississippi and elsewhere in the South, it is a story of disenfranchised professionals who risked life, limb, and personal success to improve the lot of those they served. This first of 2 articles on the subject provides an overview of the forces for and against the struggle for civil rights and social justice in medicine in the South. We use newly available data from Mississippi as a prime example. An understanding of these forces is essential to an understanding of medical education and medical practice in this period and helps explain why the South remains in last place in most indicators of health today.<br /> (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- Black or African American legislation & jurisprudence
Civil Rights legislation & jurisprudence
Delivery of Health Care history
Delivery of Health Care legislation & jurisprudence
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Mississippi
Physicians legislation & jurisprudence
Physicians supply & distribution
Racism history
Racism legislation & jurisprudence
Black or African American history
Civil Rights history
Delivery of Health Care ethnology
Physicians history
Racism ethnology
Social Justice
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1555-7162
- Volume :
- 127
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The American journal of medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 24941459
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.05.038