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We'll fight it out here : a history of the ongoing struggle for health equity
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"The authors tell the story of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools and the hard-won influence that it built in American politics and health care. This story speaks to the history...
"The authors tell the story of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools and the hard-won influence that it built in American politics and health care. This story speaks to the history of Black people's exclusion from medical fields and to racial inequities in health"--
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- Creator
- David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022
- ©2022
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- xviii, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781421444642, 142144464X, 9781421444659
- OCLC
- on1295805939
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index.
- The nadir -- The response -- Abraham Flexner and the black medical schools -- AMHPS : the founding -- The Heckler report -- Landmark legislation -- AMHPS and the Secretary -- The Office for Minority Health -- The Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities -- A national institute -- A common mission
Subjects
- Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (U.S.) -- History.
- African Americans in medicine.
- Racism in medicine -- United States.
- Discrimination in medical education -- United States.
- African Americans -- Medical care -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Discrimination in medical care -- United States.
- Health and race -- United States.
- Health services accessibility -- United States.
- Health Disparate, Minority and Vulnerable Populations -- history.
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- Black or African American.
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- Racism.
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- Education, Medical.
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- Students, Medical.
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- Medicine.
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- Health Services Accessibility.
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- United States.
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