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The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation´s Newest African American Medical School
Marybeth Gasman
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Description for The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation´s Newest African American Medical School
Hardback. Their tireless efforts in creating this eminent Black institution changed the landscape of medical education and the racial and ethnic makeup of physicians and health care professions. Num Pages: 200 pages, 29, 28 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBJK; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 410.
The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of only four predominantly Black medical schools in the United States. Among its illustrious alumni are surgeons general of the United States, medical school presidents, and numerous other highly regarded medical professionals. This book tells the engrossing history of this venerable institution. The school was founded just after the civil rights era, when major barriers prevented minorities from receiving adequate health care and Black students were underrepresented in predominantly White medical schools. The Morehouse School of Medicine was conceived to address both problems-it was a minority-serving institution educating doctors who ... Read more
The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of only four predominantly Black medical schools in the United States. Among its illustrious alumni are surgeons general of the United States, medical school presidents, and numerous other highly regarded medical professionals. This book tells the engrossing history of this venerable institution. The school was founded just after the civil rights era, when major barriers prevented minorities from receiving adequate health care and Black students were underrepresented in predominantly White medical schools. The Morehouse School of Medicine was conceived to address both problems-it was a minority-serving institution educating doctors who ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421404431
SKU
V9781421404431
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About Marybeth Gasman
Marybeth Gasman is a professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Envisioning Black Colleges and coeditor of Booker T. Washington Rediscovered, both also published by Johns Hopkins. Louis W. Sullivan is president emeritus and one of the founders of the Morehouse School of Medicine. He was secretary of the Department of Health and ... Read more
Reviews for The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation´s Newest African American Medical School
An excellent resource for researchers interested in the unique story of the creation and development of African American medical schools in the US. Choice The Morehouse Mystique will be of value to many readers: those interested in twentieth century American history and American medical education, African-American medical schools, and health care inequities. It can also be thought of as a ... Read more