| Contents |
Part 1. Education -- The rise and fall of the Black medical college -- Aid and integration -- Postgraduate education -- Part 2. Professional life -- Establishing a Southern practice -- The struggle for patients -- Hospital privileges -- Professional Associations -- Part 3. Community life -- Wealth and class -- Public health -- Civic life. |
| Review |
"In this comprehensive account, Thomas J. Ward examines the development of the African American medical profession in the South. Under segregation, the white medical profession provided inadequate service at best to African American patients. Paradoxically, African Americans could gain financial success and upward mobility by becoming doctors themselves. Ward tracks the rise of African American medical schools, professional organizations, and hospitals. He also explores the difficulties that African American physicians faced as an elite group within a subjugated caste, and the many ways in which their education, prestige, and relative wealth put them at odds with the southern caste system. Within the black community, in turn, this prestige often pushed doctors into the public sphere as business leaders, civic spokesmen, and political activists."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Local note | Little-343013--305131048814 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-353) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ward, Thomas J., 1969- Black physicians in the Jim Crow South. Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2003 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ward, Thomas J., 1969- Black physicians in the Jim Crow South. Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2003 |
| LCCN | 2003013597 |
| ISBN | 1557287562 |
| ISBN | 9781557287564 |
| ISBN | 1557289360 |
| ISBN | 9781557289360 (paperback) |
| Govt. docs number |
HI.F 3/178-8:B 522/2003 |
