商品簡介
An account of black hospitals which traces medical care for African Americans from slavery, the Freedmen's Bureau, and the black hospital movement, to the Hill-Burton Act and the decline of black hospitals after integration and the Medicare-Medicaid programs. One chapter provides a description of some black hospitals and a short (two-page) section relates the tragic effects of the refusal of segregated white hospitals to admit African American patients. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
作者簡介
MITCHELL F. RICE is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Louisiana State University.WOODROW JONES, JR. is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. Together, they edited Contemporary Public Policy Perspectives and Black Americans (Greenwood, 1984), in addition to other works.