TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaplan,Mary
TI  - The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and its Black physicians: the early years 
SN  - 1476662983
AV  - UH474.5 .T87 K375 2016
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Jefferson, North Carolina
PB  - McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
KW  - Tuskegee Veterans Hospital
KW  - African American physicians
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African American veterans
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Military hospitals
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-145) and index; Threats, fear and triumph: the opening of the Tuskegee Veterans Hospital -- Health care for Black veterans -- Responding to the call for Black physicians at the Tuskegee Hospital -- Fuller's trainees -- The practice of medicine by Black physicians in the Jim Crow south -- The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital: challenges, successes and scandal -- 1986 : Thirty-seven years later
N2  - "When the Tuskegee Veteran's Hospital opened in 1923, many in the Veteran's Bureau believed black physicians and nurses were not competent to staff the facility. With the exception of nurses' aides, orderlies, attendants and laborers, hospital personnel would be white. This history of the hospital reflects the struggle for racial equality in the U.S"--
ER  -