| Author | Watson, Wilbur H.
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| Title | Against the odds : Blacks in the profession of medicine in the United States / Wilbur H. Watson.
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| Published | New Brunswick (U.S.A.) : Transaction Publishers, c1999.
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| Description | xi, 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN | 1-56000-376-6 (alk. paper) |
| Bib. Note | References: p. 187-193.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Race, class, and power in the structure of medical practice in the United States -- History and political economy of African American medical education -- Gender in the development and practice of medicine by Blacks -- The significance of physician access of hospitals -- Illness and economic constraints on help-seeking behavior -- Race in the structure of access to treatment -- Doctor shopping behavior -- Stigma and coping with professional degradation -- The vanishing country doctor -- Interfaces of folk and biomedical practitioners -- Ethical issues in the practice of medicine -- Contemporary status of Black physicians
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| Subjects | African American physicians -- History.
Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
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| LC Card Number | 98-34953 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: R 695 W343
mq125466: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 69204] |
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