Waubonsee Community College

The racial divide in American medicine, Black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care, edited by Richard D. deShazo, MD, MACP

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The racial divide in American medicine

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edited by Richard D. deShazo, MD, MACP

Black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care

"This book documents the struggle for equity in health and health care by African American citizens and physicians in Mississippi and the United States. Dr. Richard D. deShazo and the contributors to the volume trace the dark journey from a system of slave hospitals in the state, through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era, to the present day. They substantiate that current health disparities in the state are directly linked to America's history of separation, neglect, struggle, and disparities. Contributors reveal details of individual physicians' journeys for recognition both as African Americans and as professionals in Mississippi. Despite discrimination by their white colleagues and threats of violence, a small but fearless group of African American physicians fought for desegregation of American medicine and society. For example, T.R.M. Howard, MD, in the all-black city of Mound Bayou led a private investigation of the Emmett Till murder that helped trigger the civil rights movement. Later, other black physicians risked their lives and practices to furnish care for white civil rights workers during the civil rights movement. Richard deShazo has assembled an accurate account of the lives and experiences of black physicians in Mississippi, one that gives full credit to the actions of these pioneers. The introduction and essays address ongoing isolation and distrust among black and white colleagues in Mississippi. This book will stimulate dialogue, apology, and reconciliation, with the ultimate goal of improving disparities in health and health care and addressing long-standing injustices in our country."--Provided by publisher

A roadmap to the discovery of a hushed truth / Richard D. deShazo -- Joseph and Jefferson Davis and the roots of the black hospital and community health center movements / Richard D. deShazo -- The underappreciated doctors of the American civil rights movement: Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, MD / Richard D. deShazo and Sara B. Parker -- A crooked path made straight: the rise and fall of the southern governors' plan for black physicians (1945-1970) / Richard D. deShazo, Keydron K. Guinn, Wayne J. Riley, and William F. Winter -- Black physicians and the struggle for civil rights: lessons from the Mississippi experience, part I: the forces for and against change / Richard D. deShazo, Robert Smith, and Leigh Baldwin Skipworth -- Black physicians and the struggle for civil rights: lessons from the Mississippi experience, part II: their lives and experiences / Richard D. deShazo, Robert Smith, and Leigh Baldwin Skipworth -- Freedom summer, Mississippi burning, and Jack Geiger's dream / John Dittmer -- A white dean and black physicians at the epicenter of the civil rights movement / Richard D. deShazo, Robert Smith, and Leigh Baldwin Skipworth -- An unwilling partnership with the great society, part I: head start, a poison pill, and the beginning of change in the white medical community / Richard D. deShazo, Wilson F. Minor, Robert Smith, and Leigh Baldwin Skipworth -- An unwilling partnership with the great society, part II: physicians discover malnutrition, hunger, and the politics of hunger / Richard D. deShazo, Wilson F. Minor, Robert Smith, and Leigh Baldwin Skipworth -- Opening the doors of the great republic: sex, race, and organized medicine / Lucius M. Lampton and Richard D. deShazo -- Courage in our convictions / Richard D. deShazo