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The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System
David Barton Smith
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Description for The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System
Hardcover. On the 50th anniversary of the implementation of Medicare, a behind-the-scenes account of the role of civil rights activists Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JFFJ; JFSL1; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half century selectively served people on the basis of race and wealth, began equally caring for all on the basis of need.
The book draws the reader into the struggles of the unsung heroes of the transformation, black medical leaders whose stubborn courage helped shape the larger civil rights movement. They demanded an end to ... Read more
In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half century selectively served people on the basis of race and wealth, began equally caring for all on the basis of need.
The book draws the reader into the struggles of the unsung heroes of the transformation, black medical leaders whose stubborn courage helped shape the larger civil rights movement. They demanded an end to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826521064
SKU
V9780826521064
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About David Barton Smith
David Barton Smith, Professor Emeritus in Health Administration at Temple University, USA is the author of Reinventing Care: Assisted Living in New York City (also published by Vanderbilt University Press) and Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation. He is assisting in the production of a companion documentary supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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