248 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:15 Feb 2025
ISBN:9780817361860
Hardcover
Release Date:15 Feb 2025
ISBN:9780817322236
Physicians for the People
Black Doctors and the Struggle for Healthcare Equality in Alabama, 1870—1970
By Jack D. Ellis; Foreword by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
In Physicians for the People, Jack D. Ellis illuminates the post-Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives, highlighting both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in medical professions.
Jack D. Ellis is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and coauthor of Beside the Troubled Waters: A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town