{"product_id":"good-doctors-the-medical-committee-for-human-rights-and-the-struggle-for-social-justice-in-health-care","title":"Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGood Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Dittmer\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781596915671\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBloomsbury Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe untold story of the courageous doctors and nurses who fought the battle for racial justice in hospitals, in clinics, and on the streets in the 1960s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in the summer of 1964 by medical professionals, mostly white and Northern, to provide care and support for Civil Rights activists who were organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside and tend the wounds of demonstrators from Freedom Summer, to the March on Selma, to the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. Galvanized, and sometimes radicalized, by their firsthand view of disenfranchised communities, the MCHR soon expanded its mission to encompass a range of causes from poverty to the war in Vietnam, and later took on the whole of the United States healthcare system. The MCHR doctors soon realized that fighting segregation would mean not just caring for white volunteers, but exposing and correcting the shocking inequalities in segregated health care. They pioneered community health plans and brought medical care to underserved, or unserved, areas. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough education was the most famous battleground for integration, the appaling injustice of segregated health care had equally devastating consequences. Award-winning historian John Dittmer, author of the classic Civil Rights history \u003ci\u003eLocal People\u003c\/i\u003e, has written an insightful and moving account of a group of idealists who put their careers in the service of the belief, stated in their motto, that \"Health Care Is a Human Right.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Press","offers":[{"title":"Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care | John Dittmer | Hardcover | 9781596915671 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks E 1784048","offer_id":67622976290968,"sku":"1784048","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71qCSwaZeoL.jpg?v=1790957421","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/good-doctors-the-medical-committee-for-human-rights-and-the-struggle-for-social-justice-in-health-care","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}