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Out in the Rural
Ward, Thomas J., Jr.; Geiger, H. Jack
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Description for Out in the Rural
Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 244 x 23. Weight in Grams: 448.
Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor, most of them black sharecroppers who had lived without any medical resources for generations. In Out in the Rural, historian Thomas J. Ward explores the health center's story alongside the remarkable life of its founder, Dr. H. Jack Geiger. A former teenage runaway, through a serendipitous turn of events ... Read more
Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor, most of them black sharecroppers who had lived without any medical resources for generations. In Out in the Rural, historian Thomas J. Ward explores the health center's story alongside the remarkable life of its founder, Dr. H. Jack Geiger. A former teenage runaway, through a serendipitous turn of events ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190624620
SKU
V9780190624620
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About Ward, Thomas J., Jr.; Geiger, H. Jack
Thomas J. Ward is the chair of the History Department at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. A native of Annapolis, Maryland, he earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of numerous works on both African-American history and the history of health care, including his first book, Black Physicians in the Jim ... Read more
Reviews for Out in the Rural
Ward makes an important contribution to the interest in poor people's institutions and to the fullness of southern history.
Anthony B. Newkirk, Arkansas Review
Anthony B. Newkirk, Arkansas Review