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Black physicians and the struggle for civil rights: lessons from the Mississippi experience: part 2: their lives and experiences.
- Source :
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The American journal of medicine [Am J Med] 2014 Nov; Vol. 127 (11), pp. 1033-1040. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Jun 17. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Little information is available on the lives and experiences of black physicians who practiced in the South during the Jim Crow era of legalized segregation. In Mississippi and elsewhere, it is a story of disenfranchised professionals who risked life, limb, and personal success to improve the lot of those they served. In this second article on this topic, we present the stories of some of the physicians who were leaders in the civil rights movement in Mississippi as examples. Because the health disparities they sought to address have, not of their own making, been passed on to the next generation of physicians, the lessons learned from their experience are worthy of consideration.<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, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Mississippi
Physicians legislation & jurisprudence
Physicians supply & distribution
Racism legislation & jurisprudence
Black or African American history
Civil Rights history
Delivery of Health Care ethnology
Physicians history
Racism history
Social Justice
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1555-7162
- Volume :
- 127
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The American journal of medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 24950485
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.05.042